Success

Success

Success is a journey, not a destination. 

The doing is often more important than the outcome.

(Arthur Ashe, tennis champion, Words That Matter, editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 8)

Dick Henthorn

20 May 2020

Life Is A Struggle

Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work.

No, our life is a struggle and a journey.

• Good should struggle with evil;
• truth should struggle with falsehood;
• freedom should struggle with slavery;
• love should struggle with hatred.

Life is a movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.

(After Giuseppe Mazzini, in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 29 February)

3 March 2016

You Are A Survivor!

You are alive today!

You are a survivor!

You may have lived through the worst!

Your inner journey, too, may have come close to derailment, through doubt or disillusionment or a sense of betrayal.

But you are still here, not just alive but actively seeking to grow and become more fully the person you can be.

What has carried you through all the crisis and disasters, all the inner turmoil and upheaval?

(Margaret Silf, in Daily Inspiration For Women, 29 February)

2 March 2016

Happy New Year 2016

Wherever you are today is perfect. You have been on a journey arriving right here, right now in this moment in time and space. You are here to make a new beginning on our spiritual journey and to experience and accept JOY in your life. You are in a perfect place for spiritual growth and change. Everything you have done in your entire life has brought you to this very moment and is perfect.

(Ruth Fishel, Time For Joy, 1 January)

People can lose their whole lives by being scared about some moment in the future. People waste years being nostalgic about some moment that's gone in the past. Don't spend your moment wishing you could occupy somebody else's moment -- because it doesn't belong to you, and it never will.

(John Ortberg, Now What? p. 7)

1 January 2016

Challenge Yourself

If you have an impulse to do something, why not do it? It might be just the journey you've always needed.
(Timothy Hutton, actor, in Words That Matter, by Oprah Winfrey editors, p. 15)

... when you challenge yourself, doing much more than what's expected to learn new skills, you always feel more satisfaction in your work.
(Alexandra Stoddard, The Art Of The Possible, p. 34)
1 October 2015

Life's Journey

Life's journey takes us to unexpected places.
We need to be always alert and aware to discover the joys along the way.
(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 41, 26 January)
10 March 2014

Companions

The quality of my journey is largely defined by the quality of my companions.  (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 9 November)

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On Sunday and Monday night I watched the two-part documentary about Woody Allen on PBS.  I thought the show was outstanding.  I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the history of American film making over the last forty years.

Mr. Dickie

22 November 2011

Mail-Order Pharmacy

(Photo: Mr. Dickie - our crepe myrtle)

If we always wait until we can clearly see the path that lies ahead, many a life-enhancing journey would never start. (after Larsen and Hegarty in Believing In Myself, 15 May)

You may not enjoy it when somebody reproves you, but it will do you good. (Warren W. Wiersb, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 418)

The human race can be obnoxious. (Steve Case, Everything Counts, 8 April)

Today remember you cannot change reality but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your control. (Helen Steiner Rice, From The Heart, 12 June)

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I'm experimenting with "tags" and Windows Photo Gallery Live. I tagged a bunch of "quilt" photos. I still didn't get "the hang of it."

My friend, Dennis, posted a nice photo of himself that he modified using Adobe Photoshop. I know very little about this application.

Yesterday I made post 1,900 to my Arrow Prayers blog.

My mail order pharmacy refused to refill a prescription which I thought still had one 90-day refill. They said I'd reached the year "cut-off" date. Then my doctor didn't respond to the pharmacy request for a refill prescription. Finally, I got involved. I called the pharmacy twice and the doctor's office once in an attempt to resolve the matter in my favor. I'm making a trip to the local pharmacy this morning to see if I can pick up a 14-day supply of the medication to carry me over. This incident brings back not so fond memories of a previous time when Melva ran out of a daily medication many years ago. Mail order is fine, when it works. When it breaks it's a pain in the neck.

Mr. Dickie

24 Jun 2011