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"Silence....silence is no expectations, but all possibilities. --Marcel Marceau

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"The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt." --Bono

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"This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this." ~Charlie Brown

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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." ~Newt Gingrich

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"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." --Norm Papernick

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"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways." --Anonymous

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"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." --Danny Kaye

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"Hell is truth seen too late." --H.G. Adams

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"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts." --Coleman Cox

Quote for the Day

Well, I don't think you really want to hear about the ants in my kitchen (no, I haven't tried taking a picture of them, but maybe I should with the handy-dandy close up shot feature that I have on my camera--could be interesting). Or about the trip to the store this morning to get groceries and ant traps. Or the subsequent cleaning I had to do to rid my kitchen of all the filth that likes to build up while I'm busy doing a hundred other, more important things. Or about the careful placement of my little traps.

Of course, it probably doesn't help that as soon as I see the ants crawling around, I squish them with my finger and rinse them down the sink. I think the traps would work better if I'd let them roam into them and take some of the sweet poison back to share with their little friends. But I can't seem to wait as I'd really like them gone NOW. I don't want to share my kitchen, or my crumbs, with them.

Instead, I thought I'd try to find a suitably inspiring quote from one of the two books of quotes that my Mom gave me. I don't think she gave them to me so I'd find inspiration, but merely she was cleaning out her own things and was getting rid of them. I thought they might be nice to have (especially since I have hopes of having my own library someday--one with floor to ceiling book shelves and several of those ladders on wheels with a nice fireplace and several wingback chairs to sit in and lose yourself for a while).

So, the quote for today is from the book Five Thousand Quotations for all occasions.

"The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life." --Malherbe