"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