FIRST RULE OF HOLES....

When your in one...stop digging!
(Anonymous)

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SURGURY ADVICE: (Practical experience)

Before you have a major surgery it is highly recommended that you do a "check" on the surgeon record from a major service like "healthrecords.net".

TO MY CHILDREN:

To Jenny and Nathan,

I can't tell you enough how happy your mother
and I have been with your growth into adulthood.

You have both given us the pleasure of watching
two kind, and generous people mature and
grow as unique individuals.

We love you both with all our hearts.

(I write to for my children prior to a life threatening surgury.)

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TO MY WIFE

I love you Jo-Ellen. I say those words everyday of my life
behind your back and to your face.

You have been my BEST FRIEND on this fragile and short journey together.

We have experienced a wide variety of feelings together - all of
which remind me of the adage - "if you don't grow together
you grow apart."

Thank you - for your life long support.

I love you....forever - Kent

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LIFE QUOTES: Perspective


"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change."

Jim Rohn - Author and Speaker

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When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers allthought, "He's so big we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss.”


Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will
being in the right place at the right time, unless you
are ready. The most important question is: "Are you ready?"

Johnny Carson

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Do not wait; the time will never be "just right."
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools
you may have at your command, and better tools will
be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

"Remember that your goal is not to be the richest person in the cemetery. Make the most of today!" - Hugh Tassey

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Things may come to those who wait, but only
those things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

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In the Tao Te Ching it reads:

Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are,
When you realize there is nothing lacking
the whole world belongs to you.

The Tao says,

"We join spokes together in a wheel
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move."

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You can't lead a parade if you think you look "funny" sitting on a horse.

Gremmel...

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My father worked with Profanity
like other artists worked in Oil or clay.

Alfee - The Christmas Story

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

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I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. - Dave Edison

"Remember that your goal is not to be the richest person in the cemetery. Make the most of today!" - Hugh Tassey

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Life1

LIFE QUOTES: (various)

There are two ways to become rich, make more, or desire less. (Anonymous)

No rain, no rainbows. (Anonymous)

If everything is going well, you don't know what the heck is going on. (Anonymous)

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong. (Anonymous)

You can be young only once, but immature forever. (Anonymous)

The loudest voice in the room is not necessarily the clearest. (Anonymous)

LIFE QUOTES: (various)

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~Thomas Edison

"Hitch your wagon to a star." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius." ~Michelangelo

"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." ~Thomas Edison

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr.Seuss

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." ~Eddie Rickenbacker

INSTRUCTIONS:

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know
what you're doing." (W. Edwards Deming)

Money is a poor way of keeping score....

No piece of paper will make anyone a decent human being.

Just because you care, does not mean others will.

Learning to forgive takes practice.

Never lend your car to anyone you have given birth.

Erma Bombeck

It is easier
to get forgiveness
than permission.

STUART'S LAW OF RETROACTION

Life 101 Peter McWilliams

Guilt is anger directed at ourseleves--at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do.

Life 101 - Peter McWilliams

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

African quote.

One of the best examples of how strong the taboo is against making a mistake has become is the use of the word sin. In ancient Rome, sin was a word used in archery. It simply meant to "miss the mark. At target practice, each shot was a hit or a sin. If you made a sin you made corrections and tried again.

Life 101 - Peter McWilliams

There is a story of Edison, who made, say, 1000 unsuccessful attempts in the invention of the lightbulb. "How did it fail to fail 1000 times?, a reporter asked. "I didn't fail 1000 times Edison replied. "The lightbulb was an invention that 1001 steps."

Life 101 - Peter McWilliams

Experience is the name
that everyone gives to
their mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde

A problem is a chance
for you to do your best.

-Duke Ellington

I was thrown out of college
for cheating
on the metaphysic exam.
I looked into the soul
of the boy next to me.

-Woody Allen