THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Treasure Beach Forum: Inspirational Thoughts: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 06:45 am: Edit Post

"How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 06:53 am: Edit Post

When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer
American Author and Inspirational Speaker


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Friday, April 20, 2007 - 04:12 am: Edit Post

"Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.”

Hafiz, 1320-1389


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 11:21 pm: Edit Post

"The question for each of us is not what we would do if we had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have."

Hamilton Wright Mabie
American Essayist and Editor


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 01:06 pm: Edit Post

A GLASS OF MILK

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness"

He said ... "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent t o her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words. "Paid in full with one glass of milk"

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Carmel&Hursley on Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 10:23 pm: Edit Post

Thanks Dr. Honeyghan for those inspiring thoughts. It is said the good you do will live after you.God bless you as you continue to share these valuable thoughts. I am sure that for others you have brightened many bad days.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Monday, April 23, 2007 - 02:24 pm: Edit Post

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend or a meaningful day."

Tenzin Gyatso


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 08:40 pm: Edit Post

"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."

Viktor E. Frankl, 1905-1997
Austrian Neurologist, Author and Holocaust Survivor


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 12:31 pm: Edit Post

Words with Sharp Edges
Dr. John H. Sklare, Ed.D
Wednesday, April 25, 2007


Unless you’ve been away from the TV and the radio this past week, you’ve probably heard about the scathing phone message that Alec Baldwin left for his 11-year-old daughter. And, if you reacted as I did, your jaw dropped to the floor and your heart went out to that young child when he called her “a rude, thoughtless little pig!” It actually makes me shiver a bit in my boots just typing those words. Even though I can understand to a degree the immense frustration involved in a bitter custody and divorce battle, there is no excuse for speaking to a child in that manner. This whole situation brought to mind the power that words have and their ability to cut very deeply. Particularly when those hurtful and demeaning words are spoken by someone you look up to, love and trust. So let’s use this unfortunate situation for a little bit of self-evaluation.

Your wellness assignment for today is to think about how YOU communicate with those you consider the most significant people in your life, especially when your emotions are high and you’re upset, mad and frustrated. Are you considerate of their feelings and careful with your words or do you go in for the kill and try to produce as much emotional damage as possible? What is your typical method of communication in these intense and emotional situations? If you find yourself constantly apologizing for things you say in anger to your loved ones, why not make today the day you begin to regulate and fine tune that response? As I have said before, you can never take back something you say in anger, but you can spend the rest of your life apologizing for it! That old wives tale about counting to ten could have saved Mr. Baldwin this present embarrassment, as well as spared his daughter this painful verbal assault! So how do you respond when angry? I wonder what your loved ones would say.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta H. on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 06:16 am: Edit Post

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein