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Life's greatest failure? - Trying to please everyone.

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

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It's later than you think.

Noble M. Masters

Fear is temporary, regret is permanent.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Tim Ferriss

In the end, a person is only known by the impact they have on others.

Jim Stovall

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

John C. Maxwell

Did you know...
... that today is Old Masters Value Day? In 1989 auction at
Christie's in New York City, "Portrait of Duke Cosimo I de
Medici" by Jacopo da Carucci (Pontormo) sold for $32 million
to the J. Paul Getty Museum. It is the most ever paid for an
Old Master painter.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for...

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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert Schuller

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.

E. Nightingale

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Tim Ferriss

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.

E. Nightingale

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Breatnach

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born
with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

Channing Pollock

Did you know...
... that today is Niagara Falls Tightrope Day? In 1859, Frenchman Charles Blondin aka Jean Francois Gravelet crossed
Niagara Falls on a tightrope! It took him five minutes. 25,000
spectators stood and stared as he made his way across the
falls in a most dangerous Odyssey... one he had made several times before on stilts; carrying another man on his back; pushing a wheelbarrow; and even once, blindfolded. What some people do with nothing but spare time on their hands.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

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"In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep."

Archilochus

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Be in control of your marketing, knowing your strategy is set for the best ROI.

Kenda Morrison

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

Did you know...
... that today is Mount Everest Summit Day? In 1953, New
Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing Norkay became the first climbers to reach the top of Mt. Everest.

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It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Donald Trump

Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.

David Allen

You may encounter defeat, but don't be defeated!

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

The most handicapped person in the world is a negative thinker.

This is one of my personal favorites. GM

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. Don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future.

Friendship is the most important thing in a relationship, earn the friendship to gain the relationship.

Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones that don't!

To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm

You shouldn't have to sacrifice you just because someone has a problem with it.

"It's been such a longtime I think I should be going... "

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Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan & guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle.

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan & guess what they have planned for you? - Not much."

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Einstein

"A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Did you know...
... that today is Wonder Girl of the Air Day? On this date in 1930, English aviator Amy Johnson completed the first solo
airplane flight from England to Australia. She had started the
trip 23 days earlier on May 5th. Because of this feat and others, she was known as the wonder girl of the air.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

W. Churchill

"We all have our time machines, some take us back, they're called memories; and some take us forward, they're called dreams."

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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Richard Brandson

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

E. Nightingale

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

John Gray

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

E. Nightingale

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.

Tony Robbins

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Da Vinci

It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Donald Trump

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Aung San Suu Kyi

Did you know...
... that today is Stratospheric Flight Day? In 1931, Auguste
Piccard and Charles Knipfer flew a balloon from Augsburg, Germany, to a glacier near Innsbruck, Austria. Reaching a
height of 51,793 feet during their 17-hour flight, they were the first humans to reach the stratosphere.

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Henry Ford

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Jim Rohn

Have the dogged determination to achieve your goal regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think or do.

Paul J. Meyer

Stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.

Ed DeCosta

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Wittgenstein

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

George Bernard Shaw

Buenas Noches! :-)

"It's not the tragedies that kill us. It's the messes."

Dorothy Parker

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

E. Nightingale

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line.

Donald Trump

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

William James

Each day provides its own gifts.

Marcus Aurelius

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Marcus Aurelius

"Successful people are prepared to fail more, and they are more persistent than others."

Euglena

"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's
what I have to say. The second is only part of the first."

Anna Quindlen

Did you know...
... that today is National Tap Dance Day? This day celebrates
the birthday of Bill Bojangles Robinson, the king of tap dancers. Robinson was born on May 25, 1878, in Richmond,
Virginia.

‎"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

Copernicus

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Good Tuesday morning!
Make it worth the price you pay!

"Be COOL, Be LOOSE!"
Gary Dean Masters

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Sartre

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.

Tony Robbins

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Seneca

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

Did you know...
... that today is What Hath God Wrought? Day? In 1844, Samuel
F. B. Morse opened the first commercial telegraph line between Washington DC and Baltimore, Maryland, by sending the following message: "What hath God wrought?"

"We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our
dog and all the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?"

John Grogan

Best wishes for a good Monday and a great week!

"Be COOL, Be LOOSE!"
Gary Dean Masters

It's later than you think!

Noble M. Masters

Say goodbye, the past is ending;
say hello to a new beginning! :-)

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes in life ... "...a person comes into your life and leaves an imprint on you that you will remember forever. You may never know exactly why they came into your life; however you are appreciative and thankful! That imprint, is a peace that God has given you! That peace is a new part of you that ignites you! Drives you to move forward without fear! Moves you to go on, to go out, to go up... "

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katharine Hepburn

"It's been such a long time, I think I should be going... "

Say goodbye, the past is ending; say hello to a new beginning!

You may not be where you would like to be; most of us aspire for more... To be better, to achieve more; give thanks! You woke up today!

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Virgil

It's kind of FUN to do the Impossible.

Walt Disney

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Henry Ford

The first step to better times is to imagine them.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

E. Nightingale

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu

Did you know...
... that today is Wagon Train Day? In 1843, the first wagon
train left Independence, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail. Three hundred men, 150 women, and about 500 children were part of the wagon train.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

We could never learn to be brave & patient, if there were only joys in the world.

Helen Keller

We still did not answer the questions that are important to us.

Paulo Coelho

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Dale Carnegie

f you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them.

Donald Trump

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

NFL.com - that site can become active when we find out if there is going to be a season! Otherwise, they need to be silent!!!

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Paulo Coelho

If you wished to be loved, love.

Seneca

“Dreams it seems sometimes come true but usually it depends on what you do.”

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Napoleon Hill

“Dreams it seems sometimes come true but usually it depends on what you do.”

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Napoleon Hill

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Aristotle

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort,
you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

Plato

Did you know...
... that today is Greek Philosopher's Day? Plato, one of the great Greek philosophers and author of The Republic and other books, was born on May 21, 429 B.C.

Always keep an open mind & a compassionate heart.

Phil Jackson

"... and everyone I've loved before, flashed before my eyes, and nothing mattered anymore... "

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat.

Prince Phillip of England

There is no passion to be found playing small...

Mandela

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It's Friday! Thank God!

The world is not coming to an end! If it does... It doesn't matter! When the world ends, or when my time here ends, I know where I will be! Praise God!

Make it a great day! SMILE!

Gary Dean Masters

Be careful... with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Andre Malraux

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Albert Einstein

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your
coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did you know...
... that today is Are You Somebody Day? This day celebrates all of us who are good but not yet Somebody. Celebrate you as you. Make a list of what you do, what you have done, and what you want to do. Build your self-esteem!

"... I am not there yet; I am on a mission and I will achieve my goal. In time, I'll be: '... Walking on sunshine'... " :-)

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If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Schopenhauer

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Les Brown

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

W. Churchill

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

Charlotte Bronte

Did you know...
... that today is Fingerprint Evidence Day? The first criminal
case in the U.S. in which fingerprint evidence was admitted into court occurred in New York City in 1911. Burglary suspect Caesar Cella was convicted by prints identified by Detective Sergeant Joseph Faurot.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of it.

Brian Tracy

Good Wednesday morning! - Smile!
Have a blessed and productive day!

Gary Dean Masters

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Winston Churchill

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

Homer

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Mandela

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Wittgenstein

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing
something else."

James Matthew Barrie

Did you know...
... that today is Women's Sound Barrier Day? In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound
barrier as she flew an F-86 over the California desert near Rogers Dry Lake.

Life is too short to blend in!

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

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

Will Rogers

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

Blessed are they thy put their trust in Him.

Psalm 2:12

"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."

James Garfield

Did you know...
... that today is the anniversary of The World of ResidenSea
Christening? The World of ResidenSea, the first condo cruise
ship, launched from Oslo, Norway on March 29, 2002, and was christened in Venice, Italy on May 17, 2002. At its launch,
you could buy a condo for as little as $2.2 million and cruise
the world in style!

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Dale Carnegie

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment."

Elizabeth Gilbert

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Tony Robbins

"Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of
our train to opportunity and success."

Burt Lawlor

Did you know...
... that today is the Pam's Dream Ended Anniversary? In the last episode of the 1986 season for the television show "Dallas" Pam Ewing finds her husband Bobby showering in the morning. Bobby had been dead but was reborn as Pam ended her
season-long dream. The entire last season had been but a
dream!

"... A Cinderella story on the tumble of the dice... "

Slander is one of the Seven deadly sins. - If you do not have anything nice to say about someone... You know the rest... :-)

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Ambrose Bierce

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace

Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Tony Robbins

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.

Donald Trump

Dear Lord,

Thank you for the blessing of the Emcee gig last night! It was an honor to be a part of such a great event; the 2011 Relay for Life Bexar County West!

I am responsible for what I say... and not for what you understand or how you interpreted my words.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

I got an Emcee gig tonight!
2011 Relay for Life Bexar County West!!! :-)

You may encounter defeat, but don't be defeated!

Sometimes we have to do something painful in order to make our lives better.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. - David Russell

Respect a man, he will do the more.

James Howell

Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

Jeff Mallett

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are
going, because you might not get there."

Yogi Berra

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:14

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power
working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of
paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
Irving Berlin

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes it meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

Epictetus

Did you know...
... that today is Lipton's Birthday? On his birthday in 1871, Thomas J. Lipton opened his first food shop, the beginning of the Lipton grocery store chain and later, in 1890, the Lipton
Tea Company.

"When you are a grateful about your past, no matter how painful it was, you know you are healed. When you are healed you are free to create the new life of your dreams!
Cuando llegas a estar agradecido por tu pasado aun por las experiencias más dolorosas quiere decir que te has sanado y solo cuando sanas eres libre para crear la nueva vida de tus sueños!"
Karen Hoyos

"When you are a grateful about your past no matter how painful it was, you know you are healed. When you are healed, you are free to create the new life of your dreams!
Cuando llegas a estar agradecido por tu pasado aun por las experiencias más dolorosas quiere decir que te has sanado y solo cuando sanas eres libre para crear la nueva vida de tus sueños!
Karen Hoyos

"When you are a grateful about your past not matter how painful it was, you know you are healed. when you are healed you are free to create the new life of your dreams!
Cuando llegas a estar agradecido por tu pasado aun por las experiencias más dolorosas quiere decir que te has sanado y solo cuando sanas eres libre para crear la nueva vida de tus sueños!"
Karen Hoyos

Adventure is worthwhile.
Amelia Earhart

Good Monday morning! Make it worth the price you pay. Smile! Have some fun!

Gary Dean Masters

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aurelius

Perseverance does not equal worthiness.
Lawrence Kaplow

Theres a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."
Peter McWilliams

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

"Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying
to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile."

Arnold Toynbee

Did you know...
... that today is Miss Namibia Universe Day? In 1992, two
years after her country's independence, the first woman from Namibia was crowned as the winner of the Miss Universe
pageant. Namibia lies in Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa.

Pray diligently! Work hard! Enjoy your surroundings. Smile. Stay focused. It will come in due time!
Gary Dean Masters

Pray diligently! Work hard! Enjoy your surroundings. Smile. Stay focused. It will come in due time!

"Here I come again
I don't really care to turn back
Trying to find you directions
But I seem to be losin' track... "

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
Denis Waitley

Dear Mom,



HAPPY MOTHER’s Day!



I wanted to send up a note to wish you a Happy Mother’s Day and of course say Hi! It’s been over eight years since we last had an opportunity to speak and look at each other face to face. I will remember that conversation and the look on your face for the rest of my life! Yes, I’m sure you remember the conversation too. The look on your face was one that showed great pride and true joy!



I could stop and tell you about all the ups, downs, challenges and adversity I have been through during that time, but I’m sure you have the inside scoop. The important part is that I get down on my knees each morning and thank God for letting me wake up and I ask for forgiveness for my sins. I still smile a lot, that’s what everybody says; of course if you would spend a few days around me, you would notice that I don’t smile as much as I used too. (Don’t worry, no one down here picks up on it, I stay on the move most of the time and I still smile enough for people to wonder what’s going on and what I’m up to.) I work hard to make each day worth the price I pay. I strive to keep it positive and focus on surrounding myself with positive people and try to avoid negative people and negative situations. It’s a different day and time around here. Hard to explain, but it’s different…not bad, just different.



Yes, as you know, the divorce happened, It has been tough on all involved. There were so many things going on at many levels. Most importantly I am focused and continue to move forward.



I did make a HUGE mistake! Do you want to know what it was? I forgot the recipe for the Iced Tea! Yeah, every now and then I’ll find a restaurant that comes close. What’s wild is that I still have some of my High School and College buddies that remember your Iced Tea. I thought that would bring a smile to your face.



Mom, HAPPY MOTHER’s Day. Feliz Dia de las Madres, Te quiero mucho!



I love you, Mom!

Gary :-)

Hubiera deseado que el cielo tuviera un teléfono para escuchar tu voz. He pensado en ti hoy, pero no es nada nuevo. Pensé en ti ayer, todos los días de antes. Pienso en ti en silencio. Lo que queda son recuerdos y una foto enmarcada... y aunque no exista el teléfono en donde estás, se que me escucharas. Te recordaré siempre. Te tengo en mi corazón... I love you, Mom!
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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it
foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Did you know...
... that today is Presidential Inaugural Dance Day? In 1789,
the first inaugural ball was held for President George Washington in New York City. Trivia buffs: It was not until
1809, however, after the Inauguration of James Madison at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., that the tradition of the
inaugural ball began. That night, First Lady Dolly Madison hosted the gala at Long's Hotel. Four hundred tickets sold for $4 each.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.. So love the people who treat you right.. Forget about the
ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
Og Mandino

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."
Arnold Palmer

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."Arnold Palmer

Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones that don't!

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears (respects with humility and awe) the Lord is to be praised. Prov. 31:30

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The only people you need in your life are the ones that prove they need you in theirs.

Opportunity NEVER comes at an opportune time... that crossroad is where YOU have to dig down deeper and reach up higher! :-)

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."

"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. " Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind."

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Anonymous

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill

"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get
inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them."

Jim Rohn

Did you know...
... that today is White House T-Ball Day? In 2001, President
George W. Bush hosted the first Little League game ever to be
played on White House grounds as the Satchel Paige League
Memphis Red Sox beat the Capitol City Rockies in a game of T-ball.

A smooth sea will never teach us how best to sail the boat.

Anonymous

"... Don't get discouraged,
Don't be afraid... "

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Dale Carnegie

Sometimes in life ... "a person comes into your life and leaves an imprint on you that you will remember forever. You may never know exactly why they came into your life; however you are appreciative and thankful! That imprint, is a peace that God has given you! That peace is a new part of you that ignites you! Drives you to move forward without fear! Moves you to go on, to go out, to go up, ... "

Gary Dean Masters

Sometimes in life ... "a person comes into your life and leaves an imprint on you that you will remember forever. You may never know exactly why they came into your life; however you are appreciative and thankful! That imprint, is a peace that God has given you! That peace is a new part of you that ignites you! Drives you to move forward without fear! Moves you to go on, to go out, to go up, ... "

Gary Dean Masters

"When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are
dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality."

Dom Helder Camara

Did you know...
... that today is the birthday of the English Chunnel? The
Eurotunnel, also known as the Chunnel, under the English
Channel between the United Kingdom and France opened on May 5, 1994. Plans to build the Chunnel had been announced by France and the United Kingdom on January 20, 1986.

Buenas noches! Que la pasen bien! :-)

"... It's night, again
Time for my mind to go wandering
Off on a journey, through space and time
In search of a face I can never find
So I close my eyes and look inside... "

"... It's night, again
Time for my mind to go wandering
Off on a journey, through space and time
In search of a face I can never find
So I close my eyes and look inside... "

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

:-)

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

Sometimes in life; "... you just have to go out there and make it happen!"

Gary Dean Masters

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without forgetting."

Elizabeth Bibesco

Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. - Psalm 2:12

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, ... " James 1:17

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

Henry David Thoreau

Did you know...
... that today is the birthday of the RealJukebox? In 1999,
RealNetworks released the first version of the RealJukebox
software for playing music on computers.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Starting today opportunity no longer knocks... It kicks down the door!

"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

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not
be so welcome."

Anne Bradstreet

Did you know...
... that today is Kentucky Derby Woman's Day? In 1970, Diane
Crump became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
Her mount, Fathom, placed 15th in the 96th Kentucky Derby. Diane was also the first woman to ride in a pari-mutuel race
at Hialeah Park in 1969. Congratulations, Diane!

Best wishes for a peaceful nights rest!

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Before we proceed further let us get one thing clear. Are we talking about the brown Indians in India, who have multiplied alarmingly under the benevolent British rule? Or are we speaking of the red Indians in America who, I understand, are almost extinct?

Winston Churchill

"Faith is a Belief that possesses a person!"

"No Fear,
Know Faith!"

Gary Dean Masters

"... Struck down,
But not Destroyed... "

Best wishes for a peaceful and blessed Sunday! Smile and make it a great day!

Gary Dean Masters

We must overcome the idea that we should be "normal", it robs you of the opportunity to become "extraordinary" and only allows you to be "average".

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

MY GENERATION GREW UP RECITING THIS EVERY MORNING IN SCHOOL WITH MY HAND ON MY HEART. THEY NO LONGER DO THAT FOR FEAR OF OFFENDING SOMEONE! Please, RE-POST THIS & NOT CARE ABOUT OFFENDING SOMEONE!

There is no passion to be found playing small...

Mandela

A mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

There is always time for failure.

John Mortimer

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most
important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

Robert H. Schuller

Did you know...
... that today is the beginning of Cheap Art Week? In June 1998, artist On Kawara sold seven blank canvases (with only the dates, May 1 through 7, 1971, painted on them) for more than half a million dollars! Celebrate cheap art, no art, or ridiculous art this week. :-)