The Road Not Taken
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost
")}; if (Shelley.getDate() == 2) {document.write("Words to live by
7 COMMON SENSE RULES TO LIVE BY:
Laugh a lot.
Tell the truth.
Buy low, sell high.
Floss.
Marry for love.
Clean up your own mess.
Be nice.
Words to live by
May your year be blessed with good fortune and may you fill it with the love of friends and family!
")}; if (Shelley.getDate() == 4) {document.write("Setting Your Goals
At age 12, author John Goddard wrote a list of goals he wanted to achieve in his lifetime - his included more than 100 including climbing Mount Everest, exploring the Amazon, and other such high ambitions. The last I heard, he’d accomplished more than 80% of them, including Everest and the Amazon. I’m not suggesting our goals need to be that exciting, lofty or dangerous. But they should be goals that really express our hearts’ desires.
- Bob Pike
Creative Training Techniques, March 1999
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
")}; if (Shelley.getDate() == 6) {document.write("Be Happy:
Often people attempt to live their lives backward: They try to HAVE morethings or more money, in order to DO more of what they want, so they will BE happier.
The way it actually works is in reverse.
You must first BE who you really are, then DO what you need to do, in order to HAVE what you want.
- Margaret Young
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that well catch your heart...pursue them.
")}; if (Shelley.getDate() == 8) {document.write("A Short Course in Human Relations:
The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."
The five most important words: "You did a good job."
The four most important words: "What is your opinion?"
The three most important words: "If you please."
The two most important words: "Thank you."
The one most important word: "We"
The least important word: "I"
")}; if (Shelley.getDate() == 9) {document.write("Instructions for Life
1. Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.
4. When you say "I love you"-mean it.
5. When you say "I’m sorry" look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it’s the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don’t judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Call your mom.
16. Say "Bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
17. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
18. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
19. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
20. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any others.
23. Spend some time alone.
24. Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.
25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
26. Read more books and watch less TV.
27. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
28. Trust in God but lock your car.
29. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.
30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
31. Read between the lines.
32. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
33. Be gentle with the Earth.
34. Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it.
35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
36. Mind your own business.
37. Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.
38. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
41. Learn the rules, then break some.
42. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
44. Remember that your character is your destiny.
45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
My father told me a wonderful story about a father who gave his young daughter a simple locket and told her that it contained a very valuable
diamond sealed inside the locket, so if at any time she was ever in need,
she could crack open the locket, sell the diamond, and make it through the
difficulties.