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Are you repeating your yesterdays or building your tomorrows?
'There are no limits'
(Danny Cox).

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon.

The person who can't make a choice, has made a choice.
Danny Cox. (There Are No Limits).

It is the youngest age I have left.
Cato.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein.

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty well-presented body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, loudly shouting “Wow! What a ride!” (Brad de Haven).

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Treat a setback not as a failure but as feedback, because feedback is useful information.
Mind Games - Jeff Grout & Sarah Perrin.

Choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life – Confucius.

Fowk don’t have much to say but tha’s to listen to them a long time to find out.

A peanut is neither.

You’re only conceited if you’re wrong about yourself.

Tact is the ability to tell someone where to go in such a way that they look forward to the trip. (Roger Fitz – Bounce Back and Win).

No-one rises to low expectations.

That Wordie, as a whole, is greater than the sum of its parts. There is a serendipitous synergy on this site that one can feel and revel in.

To the world you might be just one person but to one person you might just be the world.

You get what you expect, not what you want.

Success comes in cans.

To overcome the fear of dying, one should live courageously.

Suicide note.
Action cures fear, they taught me. To overcome your fear do the thing that you are afraid of. I was afraid of dying.

That is interesting. I mean, most everyone agrees that there should be speed limits, but most everyone breaks them! The USA was built upon the principle of "majority rule, minority rights", but if a majority of voters continue to elect people to put laws into place or revoke laws, and those in power replace the supreme court, eventually that voting block could change the laws to anything they wanted. In several countries, the Muslim majority attempted to vote in an Islamic dictator and disband the democracy. If this is the wish of the people, would it not be undemocratic to go against it?

In a democratic society, if more than 50% of people break a law, is that a vote against that law?

Are you someone whose words sing welcome or whose words sing welgone?

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

And God said 'A woman shall always have the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the start of a new argument'.

I love it, dontcry!

Why isn't "phonetic" spelled with an "f?"

Keep your smile in working order for the better days to come!
Henry Lawson (When Your Pants Begin To Go).

I read part of it all the way through.

Advertise your dream to yourself everyday.

Give up on the hope of a better past.
Brad DeHaven – The Currency Of The Future.

I don’t like that man. I should get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

Other peoples’ opinion of me is no business of mine.
Abraham Lincoln.

There is a certain peace in accepting what is.

You’re never at a loss for the wrong words are you?

I’m very pleased to have you know me.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Before you criticise anyone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticise them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

Always remember, you’re unique. Just like everyone else.

Make me a channel of your peace.
(Sebastian Temple).

Or possibly "better buggy whips". Just ask the Amish.

Wonderful input, Henry. Thanks, skipvia.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses." -Henry Ford

Bad news is – time flies. Good news is – you’re the pilot.

Ta, bilby. I've collected these thoughts for many years. Most of the joy in them is sharing them. Thanks for sharing.

Very few comments here, gangerh. Though I do check back often :-) Thanks, B.

People mostly remember not what you did but how you made them feel.

I’ve decided to go to bed the night before.

Sin – something you do that will cause damage to your peace of mind.

I would question the credentials of any magician who arrives by car.
Ganger H Burgess.

Smokers are always very contented, at the beach. Because for them it's like being IN the ashtray.
(Daniele Luttazzi)

The difference between a smoker in a public place and a suicide bomber is the length of the fuse.
Ganger H Burgess.

What kids really need is a good listening to.

If people did things for logical reasons, men would be the ones riding side-saddle.
Dr Nate Booth

Ravens in what you see, ravens then that you want to see.

How to be a suburbs birdwatcher.

Revel in what you see rather than what you want to see.

Simon Barnes.
How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher.

If you're not first, you're last.
-Ricky Bobby

It’s not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

Control your thinking and you control your destiny.

When is a flypast not a flypast?
When you’re not there.

Don't let anybody get you down. But consider letting elevators do it.

Never say "never say never".

Wars never decide who is right, only who is left.

An optimist is someone who, when the soles of their shoes wear out, figures they’re back on their feet.

I never let school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain.

I’m sorry to speak while people are interrupting.

A brain is something with which we think that we think.

The more we know, the more we don’t know.

Grandmas are antique little girls.

Be happy with what you’ve got while planning what you want.

… and that’s the cake under the icing!

I’ve seen more of the greater spotted woodpecker than the lesser spotted but then, presumably, so has everyone.

Your future is a result of what you do in the present, ie now.

'Here we are, on the edge of extinction, and all you can think about is sex!'

Remember, you can only sweep up the stairs because of the vagaries of the English language.

You can’t put your arm around a memory.

*grins*

Why, some years ago my memory was so bad complete strangers used to comment on it.

Wanted: meaningful overnight relationship.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney Harris

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a life-style that doesn’t require my presence.
Garry Trudeau.

I don’t believe in walking when I’m fit enough to ride.

'I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song' - Leonard Cohen - ‘A Singer Must Die’.

Last year 1700 fewer people lost their lives in road accidents. We would like to know their names.

The older I get, the better I was.

Money can’t buy happiness but it can certainly rent it for a couple of hours.

The meek shall inherit the earth, after we’ve done with it.

Does your income decide the size of your dreams or do your dreams decide the size of your income?

of course, just because they're all out to get you (and you know they are) doesn't mean you're not paranoid.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

I'm not sure, frin, but it's probably in there somewhere.

A new list, Pro? I don't know what you're talking about.

Where does telling jokes to yourself fall in the gamut?

The first sign of madness is talking to yourself. The second sign is arguing with yourself and the third sign is losing the argument.

Maybe the first sign of insanity is insisting that you are sane?

The first sign of insanity is attempting to enumerate the signs of insanity. The second sign is having hair on the palms of your hands.

I think a new list is about to be born.

I assume that HAVING arguments with yourself is the FIRST sign of insanity...if LOSING arguments with yourself is the third sign, then what is the second sign? And, just for academic purposes or course, how many signs are there all-together? "Cause if there are like, ten signs, then I'm still good... right?

Palooka, losing arguments with yourself is the third sign of insanity.

I think you're ALL wonderluscious!

Don’t get your hopes down.

“ ….that’s enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?"

Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood, only today does the fire burn brightly.
Old Red Indian saying.

I tried loving myself but then an unexpected disagreement arose & I now have irreconcilable differences with myself. I may have to see an attorney.

Just for today, I will have a quiet half-hour all by myself for meditation and relaxation.
During this half-hour I will try to get a better perspective of my life… and love myself a little more.

You are your #1 priority.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. (H. D. Thoreau)

Just a thought. English isn't really big on the 'mt' letter sequence. It does occur, but only very rarely.

warmth is one of the few words where it occurs 'naturally' (i.e. not in a proper name, or as a result of concatenation)
dreamt is another. Words involving the prefix femto .
After a few concatenations like dreamtime, tomtit, circumterrestrial, the list gets pretty sparse, unless you allow names of places, people, or products:

Binghamton, Hamtramck, Sumter, Klimt, Amtrak, Semtex.

These examples demonstrate that 'mt' is not a consonant pairing that is excluded from English because of pronunciation difficulties (unlike, say 'ng' to start a word). Nonetheless, it seems sufficiently rare as to be contra-indicated in neologisms.

It's ubiquitous in German and French (Amt, Comte).

Also known as an "idea".

believed to be a new word coined in 2007 by Ganger H Burgess meaning ....

"a thought that stimulates thought".