Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Pray, and let God worry. - Martin Luther
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
The greatest prayer is patience.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
All prayers are answered if we are willing to admit that sometimes the answer is "no".
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. - Lewis Carroll
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Driving
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
While I'm fully aware that money can't buy happiness, I wouldn't mind being known as that melancholy gal who drives the red Lamborghini Reventón.
For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! - Author unknown, as seen on a shirt
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. - Larry Lujack
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
While I'm fully aware that money can't buy happiness, I wouldn't mind being known as that melancholy gal who drives the red Lamborghini Reventón.
For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! - Author unknown, as seen on a shirt
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. - Larry Lujack
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Music
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Music is what feelings sound like.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Music is love in search of a word.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Music is what feelings sound like.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Music is love in search of a word.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Computers
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." ~ Dave Barry
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
What boots up must come down.
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." ~ Dave Barry
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
What boots up must come down.
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Dance
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~ Agnes De Mille
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. ~ Martha Graham
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~ Agnes De Mille
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. ~ Martha Graham
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Doctors
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Time is generally the best doctor.
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
The more things doctors are able to do, the more likely that at least a few doctors won't do them. And the result will be more people suing for negligence.
The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.
I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Sleep
I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Sometimes the most productive thing one can do is to sleep.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
People who snore always fall asleep first.
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. - Mark Twain
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Sometimes the most productive thing one can do is to sleep.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
People who snore always fall asleep first.
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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