Humor

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 in Whispers Of Blessing, Day 165)
7 February 2015

Denial

Denial is a key survival skill that we learned early in childhood.
It stunted our emotional growth by keeping us in a make-believe world.
We often fantasized that our situation was better than it really was.
Denial protected us from our feelings and helped us repress the pain of ... [our childhood years.]
(The Twelve Steps For Christians, p. 61)
30 January 2014

Fool Me Once

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
(Benjamin Franklin in Journey by David Jeremiah, 1 September)
15 January 2014

Approval

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

(Mark Twain in The Power Of Intention by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, p. 133)

16 May 2013

People

(Photo: Mr. Dickie)

Do not seek love in other people, and do not complain about the absence of their love for you. Some people love wrong, not right; therefore, try to please God, rather than people. (Leo Tolsoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 20 November)

There are always enemy forces who will work against you when you attempt to change the status quo. ... It is important to ferret out the motives of people who accuse you. What is their stake in your failure? What do they have to lose if you succeed? (Laurie Beth Jones, The Path, P. 118-19)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Writer, Pocket Positives, no page numbering)

Stop being surprised that ... [a resistant person] does not welcome the truth. (Cloud / Townsend, Boundaries Face To Face, p. 151)

Sooner or later, we'll be disappointed by every friend on earth; none are perfect. (David Jeremiah, Journey, 22 February)

24 April 2013

Stamp Of Appoval

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

(Mark Twain in Touchstones, 30 November)

20 December 2012

Compliment

"There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment.  I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel they have not said enough." (Mark Twain in Touchstones, 15 July) 14 August 2012

Money

(Photo by Mr. Dickie - azalea in our yard, Sprint 2011)
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I can live for two months on a good complement. (Mark Twain in The Book Of Choices by Mike Magee, M.D., p. 209)

I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves. (Joe Louis in The Book Of Choices by Mike Magee, M.D., p. 51)

How tragic that so many people waste time, energy and money on things that amount to little or nothing. (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p 388)

If a person gets his attitude toward money right, it will help straighten out almost every other area of his life. (Billy Graham, Hope For each Day, 6 March)
10/May/2011 7:29

I Could Have, I Should Have

There are those who would mis-teach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice. (Mark Twain, The Book Of Choices by Mike Magee, M.D., p. 76)

Far better to have tried than ever hear your lips repeat, "I could have, I should have." (Mike Magee, M.D., The Book of Choices, p. 224)

Do some of our toxic thoughts and behaviors not have a poisonous effect on ourselves and the people around us? (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing in Myself, 14 April)
19/Apr/2011 9:17

What Is Right And What Is Wrong

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. to decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. (Mark Twain in The Book of Choices by Mike Magee, MD, p. 89)

When a nations leaders have their priorities confused, the nation will suffer greatly. (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 206)
1/Feb/2011 9:04

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