"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much." - Bessie A. Stanley

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails." - John Maxwell

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." - Dee Hock

"In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'" - Dave Barry

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day. For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away. Like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself." - Norman Wesley Brooks

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" - Isaiah 9:6

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." - Agnes M. Pahro

"Wouldn't life be worth the living, Wouldn't dreams be coming true, If we kept the Christmas spirit, All the whole year through?" - Anonymous

"When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward." - Tyler Perry

“The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.” - Anonymous

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness." - Bob Hope

"A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!" - Anonymous

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson

"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life." - Cher

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom." - Earl Shoaf

"A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind." - Leon Tec, M.D.

"Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” - Eileen Caddy

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." - Babatunde Olatunji

"There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition." - Steven J Ross

"The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves." - Oscar Arias Sanchez

"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway." - Kent M. Keith

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be." - Lakshmi Mittal

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” - John Ruskin

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" - J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization." - Charles Lindbergh

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." - J.C. Watts

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." - Agnes de Mille

"The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it." - John Eliot

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" - William A. Ward

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim." - Richard Bach

"[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!" - Theodor Herzl

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." - Phil 4:6

"You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you." - W. Somerset Maugham

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." - Elbert Hubbard

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." - Robert Fulghum

"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." - Bob Moawad

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." - Florence Shinn

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit Coffee from 6AM to 12PM today > Blacksburg Health & Fitness @ The Weight Club (Visit www.Java411.org for details)

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." - Democritus

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out." - W.C. Handy

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." - Heraclitus

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit Coffee from 10:00AM to 1:00PM today at the 6th Annual Women's Health Event at The Inn at Virginia Tech

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them." - John Henry Cardinal Newman

"In this world nothing can be said to be
certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin
Franklin, 1789

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins

"Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being." - Daisaku Ikeda

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement." - Mabel Newcomber

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit Coffee from 7:30AM to 4:30PM at the Narrows Craft Show at NHS in Narrows, VA (Visit www.Java411.org for details)

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy

"The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way." - African Proverb

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way." - Will Rogers

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint." - Albert Schweitzer

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds." - Tryon Edwards

"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." - Lillian Eichler Watson

"Life is full of obstacle illusions." - Grant Frazier

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E E. Cummings

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee from 7AM to 12PM at Marsha's Restaurant, 100 S Main Street, Pearisburg, VA (FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." - Kurt Lewin

Chris Clark is attending the JavaFit Leadership Call - Monday, October 26, 2009 - 8:50PM EST - Dial 646-519-5860 code 9258#

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Chris Clark is attending JavaFit Distributer Training - Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 9:00PM EST - Dial 646-519-5860 code 9258#

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either." - Jewish Proverb

Chris Clark is updating his websites today, including http://Claytor-Lake.net

Chris Clark is attending JavaFit Distributer Training - Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 11:00AM EST - Dial 646-519-5860 code 9258#

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do." - Vince Poscente

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." - Calvin Coolidge

"I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist." - Paul Harvey

Chris Clark had a great week of JavaFit parties and events in southern California, and is traveling from SAN to ROA today, with a brief stop in ATL

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." - Dale Carnegie

"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do." - Charlize Theron

"When you build bridges you can keep crossing them." - Rick Pitino

"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence." - Will Henry

"Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive ... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda

"Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile." - William Raspberry

Chris Clark is at ROA, traveling to SAN, with a brief stop in ATL

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy; they just promised it would be worth it." - author unknown

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." - Brian Tracy

"Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time." - Sam Rayburn

"Live your life as an Exclamation, not an Explanation." - Anonymous

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - Evan Esar

"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." - Horace

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." - Woodrow Wilson

"Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death." - Anonymous

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." - Thomas Overbury

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy

"My future starts when I wake up every morning ... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee at the BNI Virginia Beach meeting 7:30AM Penbrook #2, 4693 Virginia Beach Blvd. Virginia Beach, VA 23462
(FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee from 6PM to 9PM at the Sandler Center, 201 Market St, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 (FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." - John Atkinson

"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present." - Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." - Indira Gandhi

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

"Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end ... and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand." (Daniel 12:9-10)

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." - Maori Proverb

"Now the Spirit expressly says that in LATTER TIMES some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons." (1 Timothy 4:1)

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." - Ronald Reagan

"It is better to wear out than to rust out." - Bishop Richard Cumberland

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee from 10AM to 2PM at Fitness Together - 1320 Kempsville Rd, Chesapeake VA 22320 (FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change." - Stephen Covey

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen." - Desiderius Erasmus

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson

"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin

"There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Chris Clark is attending the JavaFit Event in Virginia Beach, VA (9/11-9/12)

"No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito." - Betty Reese

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie

"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win." - Carl Lewis

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese Proverb

"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach." - Margaret Cho

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." - Edgar Watson Howe

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." - Frank A. Clark

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!" - Dr. Seuss

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path." - Paulo Coelho

"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems." - Margaret Mead

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." - Ellen Metcalf

"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." - Mary C. Crowley

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do." - Confucius

"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton." - James Cash Penney

"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said." - Vaclav Havel

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others." - Edward L. Flom

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo, 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852

Chris Clark is attending the Empowerment 09 conference in Raleigh, NC (8/21-8/22)

"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled." - Bill Watterson

"Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose." - Jeff Mallett

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." - Max L. Forman

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing." - George MacDonald

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke

"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?" - Babe Ruth

"Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure." - Piero Ferrucci

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles

"You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is." - Stephen Covey

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” - C.S. Lewis

"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it." - Esther Williams

"We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you've 'made it'." - Hugh Macleod

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?" - Ann Radcliffe

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation." - Thomas H. Huxley

"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." - Mark Twain

"Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success." - Henry John Heinz

"You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful." - Matt Witten

"Never regret something that once made you smile." - Amber Deckers

"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying." - Amelia Earhart

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Raymond Chandler

"Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us." - Frank Crane

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore

"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time." - Linda Shalaway

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." - Brian Adams

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

"Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation." - Author Unknown

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.” - Aldous Huxley

"One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life." - Gordon Atkinson

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late." - Marie Beyon Ray

"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up." - Ken Hill

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." - Dorothy Bernard

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately regenerate into hard work." - Peter Drucker

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." - Rita Mae Brown

Chris Clark had an awesome time in San Diego! Traveling home this morning, with a brief stop in Atlanta

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." - Confucius

Chris Clark is at ROA, traveling to SAN, with a brief stop in ATL

"You only live once ... but if you work it right, once is enough." - Joe Lewis

"The greatest threat to freedom and liberty is not from without, but from within. It is either a failure of morals or the comfort of personal peace and affluence that are the seeds of dissolution of freedom and liberty." - Craig Seibert

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person." - Dr. David M. Burns

"C:COFFEE.POT missing (A)bort (R)etry (F)all asleep?" - Author Unknown

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." - Pete Seeger

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees." - Benjamin Franklin

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

“Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.” - Anonymous

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." - Herb Caen

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." - Woody Allen

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us, or for what we did with it." - Randy K. Milholland

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." - Eddie Cantor

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T. Washington

"Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a dad." - Anne Geddes

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." - Margaret Fuller

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart

"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right." - Igor Stravinsky

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us in our place and time is in balance with everything else" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Live forever or die in the attempt." - Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Chris Clark selected his new facebook username 1 hour ago http://facebook.com/christopher.w.clark

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Johnson Reagon

"There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take." Andy Andrews

"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." - Aprocrypha

"Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity." - Willam George Plunkett

"If your vocation ... is not a vacation ... then you're destined to meander in mediocrity." That means, if you don't absolutely love what you are doing ... if you don't look forward to doing it every day ... with great anticipation ... then you will never excel. You will always be mediocre at what you're doing." - Gary Eby

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform." - Susan B. Anthony

"You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." - Meredith Willson, The Music Man

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind ... let it be something good." -- Author Unknown

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Anonymous

"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." -- George Eastman

Chris Clark created an ebay store ... listed a few items ... and he's happy with his progress ... http://Java411.org

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." (secret of a long and happy life) -- Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

Chris Clark is using http://ping.fm to update status on several social network sites at once

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time." -- Edward L. Bernays

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." -- Jim Fiebig

When I say, "I am a Christian"

When I say, "I am a Christian," I'm not shouting, "I've been saved!"
I'm whispering, "I get lost! That's why I chose this way"

When I say, "I am a Christian," I don't speak with human pride
I'm confessing that I stumble-needing God to be my guide

When I say, "I am a Christian," I'm not trying to be strong
I'm professing that I'm weak and pray for strength to carry on

When I say, "I am a Christian," I'm not bragging of success
I'm admitting that I've failed and cannot ever pay the debt

When I say, "I am a Christian," I don't think I know it all
I submit to my confusion asking humbly to be taught

When I say, "I am a Christian," I'm not claiming to be perfect
My flaws are far too visible but God believes I'm worth it

When I say, "I am a Christian," I still feel the sting of pain
I have my share of heartache which is why I seek His name

When I say, "I am a Christian," I do not wish to judge
I have no authority--I only know I'm loved

Copyright 1988 Carol Wimmer