09/01

The most important word in any language: (phonetic spelling)
Thank you
Toda (Hebrew)
Suksama (Balinese)
Telima Kase (Indonesian)
Danke (German)
Merci (French)
Salamat (Philipines)
Obrigada (Portugese)
Spacibo (Russian)
Arigato (Japanese)
Xie xie (Mandarin Chinese)
For a more comprehensive list see users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm

If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
– Aung San Suu Kyi

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. 
– Ernest Hemingway

Speak as though you are certain, listen as though you are not.
– Matt Church

It’s not what you have, but what you enjoy that constitutes your abundance. True satisfaction comes from appreciating what you have. It’s always better to appreciate things you cannot have than to have the things you cannot appreciate.
– Max Steingart

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
– Albert Einstein

In order to enjoy flowers tomorrow you have to plant seeds today.

Somehow there’s never enough time to do a job properly, but always time to do it again.
– Steven Hollander

How do you learn to make good decisions?
Experience
How do you get experience?
Bad decisions

Rien n’est plus difficile, et donc plus précieux, que d’être capable de décider.
[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than being able to decide.]
– Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

Love…If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have.

When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
– G. K. Chesterton

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
– Felix Mendelssohn (Found on a classroom wall in Harlem elementary school)

Anyone who thinks money doesn’t buy happiness has never owned a dog.
– Clare Mann

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
– Jimmy Johnson

Giving up doesn’t mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
– Unknown

In the midst of winter I finally learnt there was in me an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus

If you can’t add years to your life, add life to your years.
– Josephine Thomson

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
– Unknown

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
– James Joyce

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
– E.B. White

Everyone has to be someone to someone in order to be anyone.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
– Winston Churchill

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
– Anonymous

Some people want it to happen,
some people wish it would happen,
some people make it happen.

“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done”.
– Unknown

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.
– Unknown

Now for something completely different:
The Dalai Lama goes into a pizza shop and asks “Can you make me one with everything?”
– Heard on the Gretel Killeen program on ABC radio 702
This was later followed up with:
He gives the pizza guy a $100 note, and is given his pizza but no change. When he asks about this, he is told, “Change must come from within”.

Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when I know there are footprints on the moon.
– Unknown

It doesn’t matter whether your glass is half full or half empty.
Just be grateful you’ve got a glass and there’s something in it.
Many people don’t have either.
– Unknown

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
– Dr. Carl Sagan

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
– John Quincy Adams

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
– Charles Darwin

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
– John Lennon

Being grateful for the good things is easy. The challenge is to be grateful for the hard times – they made you the strong, independent, capable person you are.

You are not your customer so don’t worry if you can’t afford your prices! 
– Megan Auman

Life is made up of a series of experiences. Each one will make you stronger, even though it may be hard for you to realize it at the time. 

Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down. 

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
– Charles Dickens

If the sky falls in, eat clouds for breakfast.
– Joanna Maxwell (workincolour.com.au)

Tenacity and dogged determination are the real secrets to business.
– Kazuko Shibata (thanks to Robyn Lindsay for sending this is)

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
– Malcolm Muggeridge (thanks to John Eustace for sending this in)

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
– Chinese proverb (Tweeted by @CourageousLeadr)

It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time. 
– T Harv Eker

You’ve done chill out, freak out, break out, come out, hang out, speak out. Now try fun out.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win 
– Jonathan Kozel

Best way to avoid punch – no be there.
– Mr Miyagi – Karate Kid

Success comes when we face up to the responsibility for motivating ourselves.
– Tony Gordon (Thanks to Robyn Lindsay for sending this)

A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet.
– Will Rogers

It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
– Nelson Mandela (Thanks John Eustace for sending this)

John Lennon – Happy Christmas (War is Over): Music and Lyrics