Wait...Tuesday Thinkers

“our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.”

― Charles Stanley Ross

 

Charles Frazier Stanley (born September 25, 1932) is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church, a megachurch in northern Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and president of In Touch Ministries. Stanley also served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 to 1986. Stanley has an evangelical, fundamentalist,^[1] dispensationalist^[2] theology.

Tuesday Thinkers

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.   Shakespeare, William

Excerpt from Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas ·

 Im ready to get my sport on maybe he's right I'll keep up the sport each day and find out

Tuesday Thinkers "Age"

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

 

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

Tuesday Thinkers "Poem Nobility"

Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871).



Nobility
True worth is in being, not seeming,—
In doing, each day that goes by,
Some little good—not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.
For whatever men say in their blindness,
And spite of the fancies of youth,

There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.
We get back our mete as we measure—
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure,
For justice avenges each slight.
The air for the wing of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin and wren,
But always the path that is narrow
And straight, for the children of men.

'Tis not in the pages of story
The heart of its ills to beguile,
Though he who makes courtship to glory
Gives all that he hath for her smile.
For when from her heights he has won her,
Alas! it is only to prove
That nothing's so sacred as honor,
And nothing so loyal as love!

We cannot make bargains for blisses,
Nor catch them like fishes in nets;
And sometimes the thing our life misses
Helps more than the thing which it gets.
For good lieth not in pursuing,
Nor gaining of great nor of small,
But just in the doing, and doing
As we would be done by, is all.


Through envy, through malice, through hating,
Against the world, ,early and late.
No jot of our courage abating
Our part is to work and to wait
And slight is the sting of his trouble
Whose winnings are less than his worth.
For he who is honest is noble
Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Alice Cary

Tuesday Thinkers "Garfield"

"Be fit for more that the one thing you are now doing."

"If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it."

"I would rather be beaten in right than succeed in wrong."

James Abram Garfield (19 November 1831 – 19 September 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. His term was the second shortest in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in office for a total of just six months and fifteen days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield 



Not my photo but thought it was just the cutest



On a light note Garfield also said,“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.”

Tuesday Thinkers "RUNNING"

I just started running again I know I need to but I don't want to?

Any one out there feel that way ????

The feeling of my muscles aching makes me HAPPY

yup I said it HAPPY

Tuesday Thinker

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― George Eliot

George Eliot

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.^[1]
Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis^[2] and by Julian Barnes.^[3]

Tuesday and My Thoughts

No farewell words were spoken

by Unknown Author

 

No farewell words were spoken,
no time to say goodbye, you were
gone before we knew it, and only
God knows why

 

Yesterday changed by the sound of a ding I was out with my baby girl enjoying a most gorgeous day at the nursery buying herbs (to put out on my patio) we were soaking in all the beautiful flowers around us when we got to the counter and the ding ding went off on my phone well I was paying I was distraught well I read could barely get through the transaction started walking out the door reading what just came through on my phone ..a close family member on Ox's side past away suddenly... the name was there staring at me but I couldn't take it in he was only 32 he has two little babies 3 and 5  no this must be a mistake there is no way what I was reading was true and the last part was please notify Ox and his family... My heart was going out to the family but how do I tell my Ox

Ecclesiastes 3

King James Version (KJV)

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

² A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
³ A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
⁶ A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
⁹ What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
¹⁰ I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
¹¹ He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
¹⁴ I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
¹⁵ That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
¹⁶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
¹⁷ I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
¹⁸ I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
¹⁹ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
²⁰ All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
²² Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

It's Tuesday Thinker Time

Trying to get my inspiration, my creativity, my thinker, back I have felt really BLAH lately ..for insight today on those quirky quotes I write on Tuesdays.. I went to today in history

On this day in History Pope John Paul II past away


John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), sometimes called Blessed John Paul or John Paul the Great, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛf vɔjˈtɨwa]; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523. from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

ONE OF MY FAVORITE

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul II

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pope_john_paul_ii.html#kSXw1Hbcvs8YMGrf.99

Hans Christian Andersen..... was born on this day

Hans Christian Andersen (Danish: [ˈhanˀs ˈkʁæsdjan ˈɑnɐsn̩]; often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fantastic tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen



Statue in Central Park, New York commemorating Andersen and The Ugly Duckling



“Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.” ― Hans Christian Andersen

Tuesday Thinker "I"

My Thinker???

Tuesday Thinkers "FRIENDSHIP"

There is nothing too little for so little creature as man.--- It is by studying little things we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.----- Samuel Johnson

I bookmarked this quote and  checked up on who Samuel Johnson was The Decay of Friendship caught my eye so thought I'd share it ...its a longie but a goodie

Samuel Johnson 1709–1784

Samuel Johnson, the premier English literary figure of the mid- and late eighteenth century, was a writer of exceptional range: a poet, a lexicographer, a translator, a journalist and essayist, a travel writer, a biographer, an editor, and a critic.

The Decay of Friendship, by Samuel Johnson

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay"

By Richard Nordquist, About.com Guide

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

For more than three years British author, poet, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson almost single-handedly wrote and edited a biweekly journal, The Rambler. After completing his master work, A Dictionary of the English Language, in 1755, he returned to journalism by contributing essays and reviews to the Literary Magazine and The Idler, where the following essay first appeared.

Of the "innumerable causes" of decayed or destroyed friendships, Johnson examines five in particular.

The Decay of Friendship

from The Idler, Number 23, September 23, 1758

by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship. It is painful to consider that this sublime enjoyment may be impaired or destroyed by innumerable causes, and that there is no human possession of which the duration is less certain.

Many have talked in very exalted language, of the perpetuity of friendship, of invincible constancy, and unalienable kindness; and some examples have been seen of men who have continued faithful to their earliest choice, and whose affection has predominated over changes of fortune, and contrariety of opinion.

But these instances are memorable, because they are rare. The friendship which is to be practiced or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Many accidents therefore may happen by which the ardor of kindness will be abated, without criminal baseness or contemptible inconstancy on either part. To give pleasure is not always in our power; and little does he know himself who believes that he can be always able to receive it.

Those who would gladly pass their days together may be separated by the different course of their affairs; and friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten, will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place. A man deprived of the companion to whom he used to open his bosom, and with whom he shared the hours of leisure and merriment, feels the day at first hanging heavy on him; his difficulties oppress, and his doubts distract him; he sees time come and go without his wonted gratification, and all is sadness within, and solitude about him. But this uneasiness never lasts long; necessity produces expedients, new amusements are discovered, and new conversation is admitted.

No expectation is more frequently disappointed, than that which naturally arises in the mind from the prospect of meeting an old friend after long separation. We expect the attraction to be revived, and the coalition to be renewed; no man considers how much alteration time has made in himself, and very few inquire what effect it has had upon others. The first hour convinces them that the pleasure which they have formerly enjoyed, is forever at an end; different scenes have made different impressions; the opinions of both are changed; and that similitude of manners and sentiment is lost which confirmed them both in the approbation of themselves.

Friendship is often destroyed by opposition of interest, not only by the ponderous and visible interest which the desire of wealth and greatness forms and maintains, but by a thousand secret and slight competitions, scarcely known to the mind upon which they operate. There is scarcely any man without some favorite trifle which he values above greater attainments, some desire of petty praise which he cannot patiently suffer to be frustrated. This minute ambition is sometimes crossed before it is known, and sometimes defeated by wanton petulance; but such attacks are seldom made without the loss of friendship; for whoever has once found the vulnerable part will always be feared, and the resentment will burn on in secret, of which shame hinders the discovery.

This, however, is a slow malignity, which a wise man will obviate as inconsistent with quiet, and a good man will repress as contrary to virtue; but human happiness is sometimes violated by some more sudden strokes.

A dispute begun in jest upon a subject which a moment before was on both parts regarded with careless indifference, is continued by the desire of conquest, till vanity kindles into rage, and opposition rankles into enmity. Against this hasty mischief, I know not what security can be obtained; men will be sometimes surprised into quarrels; and though they might both haste into reconciliation, as soon as their tumult had subsided, yet two minds will seldom be found together, which can at once subdue their discontent, or immediately enjoy the sweets of peace without remembering the wounds of the conflict.

Friendship has other enemies. Suspicion is always hardening the cautious, and disgust repelling the delicate. Very slender differences will sometimes part those whom long reciprocation of civility or beneficence has united. Lonelove and Ranger retired into the country to enjoy the company of each other, and returned in six weeks, cold and petulant; Ranger's pleasure was to walk in the fields, and Lonelove's to sit in a bower; each had complied with the other in his turn, and each was angry that compliance had been exacted.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. Those who are angry may be reconciled; those who have been injured may receive a recompense: but when the desire of pleasing and willingness to be pleased is silently diminished, the renovation of friendship is hopeless; as, when the vital powers sink into languor, there is no longer any use of the physician

My Thinker ... He hit the nail on the head....as the saying goes you have to be a friend to have a friend

Tuesday Thinkers 'Lafayette"

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de la Fayette (September 6 1757 – May 20 1834) was a French and American military officer and aristocrat who participated in the American revolution as a general and served in the Estates General and the subsequent National Constituent Assembly in the early phases of the French revolution.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Letter to his father-in-law, the Duc d'Ayan (4 December 1776), as quoted in George Washington's Generals and Opponents : Their Exploits and Leadership (1994) by George Athan Billias, p. 219

Tuesday Thinkers "Can You Guess"

YOU

You greet me every morning

 with all your piles forming

your at my feet

and on my seat

even on my couch

 you make me such a grouch

 by the sink

you start to stink

you always make me think

that one day I will wake 

without out a flake of you my ache

what a pain

you have more stains

It is not well

I want to yell

Will you please go in the basket  

you tease me to a casket

I put you away

you do not stay

you have won

I am done

Tuesday Thinkers

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face….You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Bones and Tuesday Thinkers

 Son, my oldest of my bunch has obsessively watched BONES for years now. Last Christmas I bought him seasons 4,5,and 6 on blue ray we have done a lot of BONES watching in this house since, besides Son putting in a disc of BONES every chance he gets, we found that one of the channels plays reruns of BONES on weekends, then there's always Mondays, we all stay up late and watch the next episode of BONES as you can see we have all developed a fondness for this show...

Last night's episode...had me thinking

Never Part Without Loving Words.

They Might Be Your Last.

In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, Ephesian 4:26

Tuesday Thinkers "Superhero or Villain"

Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged
                                                      John Casper Lavater

John Casper was a physiognomiest what is that ???


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/physiognomy
phys·i·og·no·my  (fz-gn-m, -n-m)

n. pl. phys·i·og·no·mies

1.

a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

b. Divination based on facial features.

2.

a. Facial features, especially when regarded as revealing character.

b. Aspect and character of an inanimate or abstract entity

??Never knew it was an art to judge people by what they look like??

Makes you think?

When I look at pictures of physiognomy it reminds me of modern day comics finding human character and creating it in comical form don't we all have a little superhero or villain in us I wonder what character best describes us?

Tuesday Thinker

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

 An intriguing man his eyes pull you in, his slight grin keeps you captivated

Tuesday Thinkers

Smiles is the longest word in the world. There is a mile between the first and last letters.

Tuesday Thinkers

No Matter what you try to do, At home or at your school, Always do your very best, There is no better rule.

Tuesday Thinkers

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, except that I shall not Know all my duty, or shall fail to do it ----Mary Lyon