Just Like Me

When I grow up I want to be just like me. - Unknown 


With age comes contentment with yourself.

How Do I Get To Heaven?

Living life from day to day
And reading books from page to page,
I know life is just my stage
And I wish I could, I said I would,
I know I should do something good
And my God, I fear I'm shedding tears,
The colors change from year to year
Around here

And I said
How do I get to Heaven from here,
I wanna know
How do I get to Heaven from here 

Holy Toledo, where does the time go
My dreads are locked,
My watch is stopped,
My glass half full, my gun is half-cocked
Mmmm, Holy Toledo, oooo

Now I've said too much, I'm losing touch
Step on the gas and off the clutch, mmmm
Oh, I'm gonna leave Toledo,
Have no fear well time goes slow
But I'm shifting gears

And I said
How do I get to Heaven from here,
Well I wanna know
How do I get to Heaven from here

Holy Toledo, where does the time go
My dreads are locked,
My watch is stopped,
My glass half full, my gun is half-cocked
How do I redeem my sins
Well, I sure hope
St. Peter's gonna let me in Holy Toledo, mmmm

& I said how do I get to Heaven from here,
I wanna know how in the hell
Am I gonna to Heaven from here

Holy Toledo, where does the time go
My dreads are locked,
My watch is stopped,
My glass half full, my gun is half-cocked
How do I redeem my sins
Well open up St. Peter
Ya better let me in
Holy Toledo

& I said how do I get to Heaven from here
- Crystal Bowersox   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q9h_TcnT4o&NR=1 

The Blame Game

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

Blaming the present on the past is a cop-out.

Director

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado 

You've got to know where you're going in order to lead.

Your Autograph

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. - Commitment To Excellence 

Don't be shy about it either.

Scared?

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman 

Panic attacks are not productive.

Tones

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. - Robert Frost

Smile when you answer the phone. It works.

Love of Liberty

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt

Don't be convinced those who act to protect liberty are working just for the benefit of themselves.

People Remember

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it. - Howard W. Newton 

Don't cut corners.

Today my blog is 5 years old. 1298 posts so far. I've searched for quotes which have struck some cord within me. That cord is the starting point for my remarks. 


Many of you read my blog by RSS Feed Readers, E-Mail, Twitter or Facebook  and never go directly to the site itself. I would encourage you to do just that. You can choose topics, search for words used, search by author, etc. I've tried to make it a resource - not just a daily amusement. A particular quote might not give you the solution to your problem, but it might get your thoughts headed in the right direction. The address is http://lylewisdom.blogspot.com


I'm constantly searching for new quotes so if you have one which you like, send it to me and I will add it to my list. You may add it to the comments of a post (I won't publish the comment) or e-mail it to me (my address is on the blog).

Git 'er Done

Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. - Pioneer Motto

Those were the days when the tools for living could be made at home.

Chosen Destiny

Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate time-lines. - R. Stevens


Choose your own destiny.

Enemy of Knowledge

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking


Just because you have read a synopsis doesn't mean you know the subject.

Enemy of The Truth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy


Belief in myth is accomplished with faith.

Not Really Hinderences

Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. –  James Buckham


Every cloud has a silver lining - or a gold lining if approached correctly.

Writing Well

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. - Walter Bagehot


If you aspire to be an author learn about something specific so you can write about it well.

Persuasion

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. - Blaise Pascal


Present your case not to persuade, but to allow coming to your conclusion.

Shining a Light

Why not shine a light on the holes we're digging today as opposed to the canyons we'll have to deal with years from now? - Seth Godin 


Consider the long-term results of your actions today.

Good Manners

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.


It's not bad manners to teach your children good manners.

Perfection

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill


You can always get better but you can't get perfect.

Rewards

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Material rewards may feed the body but personal gratification dwarfs the gain.

Compromise

Compromise used to mean that a half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. - G. K. Chesterton


If you have no choice but to compromise, be honest with yourself about what you are giving up.

Beauty?

Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. - Halle Berry


Being a beautiful person on the inside will spare you much.

Difficult Children

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world. - A. S. Neil


Happiness comes from being excited about something - find it.

Suffering Overcome

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller


...and ideally empty of complaints about it.

Growing

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Irish Proverb


Growing wealth; growing respect; growing wisdom...........

Interesting

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton


Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

Lambs and Wolves

I guess, after all, that evil things in this life help to make the good things more desirable, and all things natural must be right, be they lamb, dove, wolf or serpent. - Josh Billings


Don't confuse unpleasant or inconvenient with evil.

Censure

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. - Tryon Edwards


True of censure of others but not true of censure of ideas.

Squeaky Wheels

I hate to be a kicker,
I always long for peace,
But the wheel that does the squeaking,
Is the one that gets the grease. - Josh Billings


Josh lived when you traveled in buggies or carriages. A "kicker" was an ill-behaved horse. Wheels didn't have bearings - wood to wood or metal was the normal. They squeaked when they ran dry of lubricant. The above poem is where the saying "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" comes from.

Laden With Books

In education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. - Michel de Montaigne


Kids need to see that learning is what you do forever, not just when in school.

Long-lived Enthusiasm

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. - Edward B. Butler


And has the happiest life.