Uplifting Quotes

by **zebadee** Thu 25 Feb 2010 - 21:16

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."

- Napoleon Hill

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

- Groucho Marx

by **Alby** Thu 25 Feb 2010 - 21:50

Nice ones
love Groucho's

by **LeslieG** Sat 27 Feb 2010 - 10:57

Taken from a pop song:
Yesterday is dead and gone, and tomorrow's out of sight.
All I'm asking is your time to help me make it through the night.
Fine words some song writers are also poets and philosophers.

by **zebadee** Sat 27 Feb 2010 - 14:09

Hi :)
Of course some of us are asking what song?
(Before my time rotflmao

)
It could make a great thread.
Post some lyrics & see who can name the song. lol!

by **LeslieG** Sat 27 Feb 2010 - 14:21

Actually although I know all the words and it is one of my favourite songs I do not have a clue who wrote it.......... Oh the brain cell just kicked in I will Google it

by **zebadee** Sat 27 Feb 2010 - 15:50

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."

- Shakti Gawain

"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." - Louise Hay

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Attributed to several people

by **zebadee** Sun 28 Feb 2010 - 20:27

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can." - Henry Ford

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

- Orison Swett Marden

"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."

- Ayrton Senna (Formula One World Champion 1988,1990,1991)

by **LeslieG** Mon 1 Mar 2010 - 18:46

Most marriages are made up of two people of different gender. one of which is always right and the other is called a husband. Anon

Nancy Lady Astor to Winston Churchill in parliament. "If you were my husband I would put poison in your food"
Reply from Churchill. "If you were my wife I would eat it."

by **sanshoe** Tue 2 Mar 2010 - 12:24

My wife, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me one of these mood rings so she could monitor my mood.

We discovered that, when I am in a good mood, it turns green and, when I am in a bad mood, it leaves a big f****g red mark on her forehead.

Rodney Rude Australian comedian

by **JayCee** Wed 3 Mar 2010 - 11:30

LeslieG wrote:Taken from a pop song:
Yesterday is dead and gone, and tomorrow's out of sight.
All I'm asking is your time to help me make it through the night.
Fine words some song writers are also poets and philosophers.

Help me make it through the night by Kristofferson

Google is my friend. :idea:

by **LeslieG** Wed 3 Mar 2010 - 13:38

Thanks John, I think that he was one of the great poet songwriters.

by **SATRAT** Wed 3 Mar 2010 - 19:14

LeslieG wrote:Taken from a pop song:
Yesterday is dead and gone, and tomorrow's out of sight.
All I'm asking is your time to help me make it through the night.
Fine words some song writers are also poets and philosophers.

Les the first person to have a big hit with this was Sammi Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFomOCT71L4

Also Billy Connolly but he changed the words a bit

Take the rollers from yer hair.
Shake them loose and let them fa.
Pit them doon by your glass eye,
In that chanty by the wa.
Though yer teeth are black and gone,
An yer breath smells outa sight,
I'll pit a clae's (clothes) peg on ma nose,
Tae help me make it through the night!