I found something that I wanted to share with all of you. Very wise words of wisdom by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To laugh often and much.
To win the respect of the intelligent people
and the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics.
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others.
To leave the world a bit better whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch, or a
redeemed social condition.
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

 

A very nice quote...thanks!

 

What something thought provoking on this forum. What's this place coming to!

Thanks it is a nice break in a crazy day.

 

I'm not used to seeing uplifting quotes on this forum, my mind is blank!

that's a great quote though

 

I thought it's time for something positive for a change

Glad you guys like it!

 

good one!

 

What a nice thing to read. Thanks, NBN.

 

It's you being so touched by such words to actually post them that absolutely compels me to love you.

 

Thank you NBN. More people should think of success in that way, excellent way to look at life.

 

Not quite on the topic of "success" but it's somewhere close:

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau

 

Bonjour mon petit 'prince'

On est d'accord avec
ça.

A peaceful world to bring kids into fits that bill I'd say.

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I've no idea why the fon't suddenly changed!

 

Thanks Chunky and Sully for your input. Let's hear some more inspirational thoughts, shall we. What do you say? Piggit? Kimiko?

I'm sure you two lovely and intelligent ladies have something to say as well Or any others for that matter...

 

If we can talk about successful people, here's one from the late Anita Roddick.

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito"

 

The Bridge Builder


[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you a bridge at the eventide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

--Will Allen Dromgoole
[/FONT]

 

The Bridge Builder by MusicMachine

I designed and built a small bridge in Wales
I hoped to be called Jones the bridge builder
but I wasn't
I designed and built a big bridge in London
I though now they will call me Jones the bridge builder
but they didn't
I designed an even bigger bridge in New York
Surely now they must call me Jones the bridge builder
but still they didn't

BUT

You fuck one sheep.......

 

I always suspected you were a cumquat loving sheep shagger.