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Apple Seeds...

by Barb Erickson


Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard
http://teachers.net/chatboard. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of July are compiled here.

July 2003

Tu, 07-01:
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

~ Marcel Proust

We, 07-02:
If an adult writes in a book, we call it doodling. It a child writes in a book, we call it destroying property.

~ Unknown

Th, 07-03:
If well thou hast begun, go on; it is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

~ Robert Herrick

Fr, 07-04:
A thoughtful mind,, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Sa, 07-05:
A great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Su, 07-06:
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

~ Donald A. Adams

Mo, 07-07:
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

~ Albert Einstein

Tu, 07-08:
Patience is the key to paradise.

~ Armenian proverb

We, 07-09:
We only learn our limits by going beyond them.

~ Unknown

Th, 07-10:
S/He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.

~ Danish proverb

Fr, 07-11:
Trust yourself, and you will know how to live.

~ Unknown

Sa, 07-12:
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

~ Aesop

Su, 07-13:
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

~ Unknown

Mo, 07-14:
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

~ Martin Luther

Tu, 07-15:
Get the better of yourself -- this is the best kind of victory.

~ Miguel de Cervantes

We, 07-16:
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the first mark of an educated person.

~ Norman Cousins

Th, 07-17:
Tomorrow is now.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Fr, 07-18:
The secret of success is to be ready when opportunity comes.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Sa, 07-19:
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

~ John Adams

Su, 07-20:
Act well at the moment, and you will have performed a good action to all eternity.

~ Johann Lavater

Mo, 07-21:
Do extraordinary things; don't just dream them.

~ Unknown

Tu, 07-22:
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers.

~ James Thurber

We, 07-23:
When life's path is steep, keep your mind even.

~ Horace

Th, 07-24:
Where there is no vision, the people perish.

~ Proverbs 28:18

Fr, 07-25:
There is no progress without some discontent and discomfort.

~ Unknown

Sa, 07-26:
Aim high. Chances are, you won't be disappointed.

~ Unknown

Su, 07-27:
S/He who would learn to fly must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

~ Nietzsche

Mo, 07-28:
Finish each day and be done with it . . . Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tu, 07-29:
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

~ Helen MacInnes

We, 07-30:
Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average.

~ A. W. Tozer

Th, 07-31:
Challenge yourself all the days of your life.

~ Unknown


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