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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 May are compiled here.

May 2003

Th, 05-01:
No person ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

~ William E. Gladstone

Fr, 05-02:
It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

~ Sir Edmund Hillary

Sa, 05-03:
Every day is a gift. Treat it kindly. Share it with joy.

~ Unknown

Su, 05-04:
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Mo, 05-05:
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardens who make our souls blossom.

~ Unknown

Tu, 05-06:
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

~ William Wordsworth

We, 05-07:
Nothing would be done at all if we waited until it could be done so well that no one could find fault with it.

~ Cardinal Newman

Th, 05-08:
Who can say with certainty that one will live to see tomorrow?

~ Tibetan proverb

Fr, 05-09:
Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

~ Charles Darwin

Sa, 05-10:
Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

~ Unknown

Su, 05-11:
Champions believe in themselves even when others do not.

~ Unknown

Mo, 05-12:
When you declare, you will achieve.

~ Unknown

Tu, 05-13:
All people should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

~ James Thurber

We, 05-14:
The real malady is fear of life, not death.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

Th, 05-15:
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again today.

~ the Buddha

Fr, 05-16:
Pursue worthy aims.

~ Solon

Sa, 05-17:
In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you.

~ Anwar Sadat

Su, 05-18:
Do the little things well now. In time, great things will be presented to you, waiting to be done.

~ Persian proverb

Mo, 05-19:
It is time for all of us to cheer for the doer, the achiever ¯ the one who recognizes challenge and does something about it.

~ Vince Lombardi

Tu, 05-20:
Sometimes things become possible if we want them enough.

~ T. S. Eliot

We, 05-21:
Life is lived in the present. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to be. Today is the miracle.

~ Unknown

Th, 05-22:
Don't be run so much by what you lack as by what you have already achieved.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Fr, 05-23:
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

~ Aristotle

Sa, 05-24:
Confidence is the inner voice that says you are becoming what you are capable of being.

~ Unknown

Su, 05-25:
Decide what is worthwhile and follow through on it.

~ Unknown

Mo, 05-26:
We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

~ Francis A. Walker

Tu, 05-27:
The universe is change, life is understanding.

~ Unknown

We, 05-28:
Courage is grace under pressure.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Th, 05-29:
To move the world, we must first move ourselves.

~ Socrates

Fr, 05-30:
It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes.

~ Unknown

Sa, 05-31:
The great doing of little things makes the great life.

~ Eugenia Price


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