QUOTE A DAY
"Words That Inspire, Provoke and Entertain"
*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
--Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where
ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel
that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and
degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
--FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Empathy is the natural outgrowth of charity...Empathy is
not sympathy but understanding and caring. It is the basis
of true friendship.
--Lynn A. Mickelsen - Oct. Church. Conf. 2003
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real
thing.
See at the bottom for the answer
There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life
of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,
whose portal we call Death.
--Henry W. Longfellow
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time
and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in
the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in
having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share.
Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on
others without getting a few drops on yourself.
--Og Mandino motivational speaker
For death begins with life's first breath and life begins
at touch of death.
--John Oxenham
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination
nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love,
love, that is the soul of genius.
--Mozart
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real
thing.
MYSTERY QUOTE ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln