Daily Dose 28-2-2009

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.

-- Pearl S. Buck

Daily Dose 27-2-2009

Should is an ordinary, everyday word -- except when it is used to indicate an order that may not be refused. Then should becomes a finger waving under the nose. …Should users build prison cells for themselves. They are so focused on what they should do -- that they cannot think about what they can do, what they might do in the future.

-- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf

Daily Dose 26-2-2009

I wonder if, before we were born, we were as afraid of life as we are now of death.

-- Jay Williams

Daily Dose 25-2-2009

Self esteem is the foundation of our self confidence and self motivation. Self esteem is how we feel about ourselves at any given moment.

Almost everyone of us has been taught to base and build our self esteem on the wrong foundations. We build it on something external instead of something internal. We are taught to tie it to our position, possessions and pay, and by how much regard we receive from others. This is why we very seldom meet people who have rock solid self esteem.

Most of us learn how to disguise our fragile self-esteem. Eventually the disguise takes its toll, we surrender to the tension and then collapse somewhere in a heap. Each and every one of us will have to go back to school to learn this inner lesson and find our true inner strength. Life will give us many signals and offer many opportunities to do this, but most of us either avoid the message or shoot the messenger, preferring to live with the tension and keep up the deception.

-- Brahma Kumaris

Daily Dose 24-2-2009

My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.

-- Arthur Wellesley Wellington

Daily Dose 21-2-2009

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

-- John Barrymore

Daily Dose 20-2-2009

You are a unique and magnificent human being. Of all the billions of people on the planet, there is not another you, and your very existence is vital to the functioning of our universe, because you are one part of the whole universe. All that you see and all that there is could not exist without you.

-- Rhonda Byrne

Daily Dose 18-2-2009

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Daily Dose 17-2-2009

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

-- Khalil Gibran

Daily Dose 16-2-2009

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it’s been.
-- Wayne Gretzky

Daily Dose 12-2-2009

Freedom of choice is for amateurs. There is ultimately only one choice in your life of chaos and darkness or Light and Power. Darkness or Light and all else is the effect of this one choice.

-- James Arthur Ray

Daily Dose 11-2-2009

“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”

-- Thomas A. Edison

Daily Dose 10-2-2009

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.
You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.
You'll fight with your best friend.
You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.
You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love.
So................................................................
...take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Unknown

Daily Dose 9-2-2009

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

-- Bertrand Russell

Daily Dose 7-2-2009

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol

Daily Dose 6-2-2009

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one which is most responsive to change.
-- Charles Darwin

Daily Dose 5-2-2009

If the truth does not save us, what does that say about us?

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

Daily Dose 4-2-2009

All human activity is prompted by desire.

-- Bertrand Russell

A Letter to Dad

A Letter to Dad

A father passing by his teenage daughter's bedroom was astonished to see the bed was nicely made and everything was neat and tidy. Then he saw an envelope propped up prominently on the centre of the pillow. It was addressed "Dad". With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter with trembling hands:-

Dear Dad,

It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you, but I'm leaving home. I had to elope with my new boyfriend Randy because I wanted to avoid a scene with mummy and you. I've been finding real passion with Randy and he is so nice to me. I know when you meet him you'll like him too - even with all his piercing, tattoos, and motorcycle clothes.

But it's not only the passion Dad, I'm pregnant and Randy said that he wants me to have the kid and that we can be very happy together. Even though Randy is much older than me (anyway, 42 isn't so old these days is it?), and has no money, really these things shouldn't stand in the way of our relationship, don't you agree?

Randy has a great CD collection; he already owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. It's true he has other girlfriend! s as well but I know he'll be faithful to me in his own way. He wants to have many more children with me and that's now one of my dreams too.

Randy taught me that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone and he'll begrowing it for us and we'll trade it with our friends for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so Randy can get better; he sure deserves it!!Don't worry Dad, I'm 15 years old now and I know how to take care of myself. Someday I'm sure we'll be back to visit so you can get to know your grandchildren.
Your loving daughter,
Rosie
At the bottom of the page were the letters "PTO". Hands still trembling, her father turned the sheet, and read:

PS: Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at the neighbour's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than my report card that's in my desk centre drawer. Please sign it and call when it is safe for me to come home. I love you!

Daily Dose 3-2-2009

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.It gives you the ability to rise above reality.

-- Max Steingart

Daily Dose 2-2-2009

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

-- Thomas A. Edison