To my readers...

Hi my dear readers! I wanted to let you know that there is a neat gadget in the sidebar,
Yahoo! Babelfish, that allows you to read this blog (and others) in different languages.
Just type in the URL of the blog in its entirety beginning with http:// and click the drop
down bar underneath that says "Translate from". It has many languages! You can also
type in a phrase or word if you like. Try it, it's neat! I know I have readers from other
countries (hi!!!) and I thought you may want to read this blog in your country's native
language. Neat! Have a nice rest of your day, my friends! Val =)

Success Quotes and a Verse...

Success Quotes and a Verse

"All a man's ways seem innocent to him,
but motives are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the
Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."
- Proverbs 16:3
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"I know the price of success: dedication,
hard work, and an unremitting devotion to
the things you want to see happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The harder you work the
harder it is to surrender."
- Vince Lombardi
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“Character cannot be developed in ease
and quiet. Only through experience of trial
and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
- Helen Keller
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"Success is more a function of consistent
common sense than it is of genius."
- An Wang
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"They can because they think they can."
- Virgil
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"The thing always happens that
you really believe in; and the belief
in a thing makes it happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The greatest results in life are
usually attained by simple means and
the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may
for the most part be summed in these two:
common-sense and perseverance."
- Owen Feltham
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"To climb steep hills requires
a slow pace at first."
- William Shakespeare
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"Success is the good fortune that
comes from aspiration, desperation,
perspiration and inspiration."
- Evan Esar
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"If you wish success in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius."
- Joseph Addison

Do you have a favorite?

New Beginning Quotes...

New Beginning Quotes

"Beginning today,
treat everyone you meet as if they
were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness,
and understanding you can muster, and
do it with no thought of any reward. Your
life will never be the same again."
- Og Mandino

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"The secret to a rich life is to have
more beginnings than endings."
- Dave Weinbaum

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"One step must start each journey."
- Author Unknown

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"There are two mistakes one can make along
the road to truth... not going all the way,
and not starting."
- Buddha

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"Keep on beginning and failing.
Each time you fail, start all over again,
and you will grow stronger until you have
accomplished a purpose - not the one
you began with perhaps, but one
you'll be glad to remember."
- Anne Sullivan

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"Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going."
- Jim Rohn

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"It is not death that a man should fear,
but he should fear never beginning
to live."
- Marcus Aurelius

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"Making the beginning is
one-third of the work."
- An Irish Proverb

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"All great deeds and all great thoughts
have a ridiculous beginning."
- Albert Camus

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"There will come a time when
you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning."
- Louis L'Amour

Joke - New Years Resolutions For Internet Junkies

New Years Resolutions For Internet Junkies

* I will try to figure out why I "really"
need 12 e-mail addresses.

* I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband).
A phone call every now and then would be appreciated.

* I will answer my snail mail with the same
enthusiasm with which I answer my e-mail.

* I will stop sending e-mail, ICQ, and instant messages and
be on the phone at the same time with the same person.

* I resolve to back up my 12GB hard drive daily...
well, once a week... okay, monthly then...
or maybe... at least once a year.

* I will spend less than one hour a day on the Internet.
This, of course, will be hard to estimate since I'm not
a clock watcher. (One hour :-o!!! LOL Tee Hee..)

* I will stop checking my e-mail at 3:00 in the morning.
4:30 is much more practical since my friends
overseas already had time to answer me by then.

* When I hear a funny joke, I will
not reply, "LOL... LOL!"

* I will read the manual... just as
soon as I can find it.

* I will think of a password other than "password".

* I resolve... I resolve to... I resolve to, uh...
I resolve to, uh, get my, er... I resolve to, uh,
get my, er, off-line work done, too!

Jokes for the New Year...

A Bad Dream?

Jemima was taking an afternoon nap on New Year's Eve before the festivities.

After she woke up, she confided to Max, her husband, "I just dreamed that you
gave me a diamond ring for a New Year's present! What do you think it all means?"

"Aha, you'll know tonight," answered Max smiling broadly.

At midnight, as the New Year was chiming, Max approached Jemima and
handed her a small package. Delighted and excited, she opened it quickly.

There in her hand rested a book entitled, 'The Meaning of Dreams'.

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New Year's Day Party - That Never Was?

As in many homes on New Year's Day, Janet and Nigel, a happily married couple,
faced the annual conflict of which was more important - the football match
on television, or the lunch itself.

Hoping to keep the peace, Nigel ate lunch with the rest of the family, and even
lingered for some pleasant after-lunch chat, before retiring to the lounge
to turn on the television.

Some minutes later, Janet looked in to see how Nigel was and graciously
even brought him a cold beer. She smiled, kissed him on the cheek,
and asked what the score was. Nigel told her it was half time and that
the score was still 0 - 0.

"See?" Janet said happily, "You didn't miss a thing."