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Saturday, December 15, 2018
MidMonth Mirth Memo, December 2018
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Thanksgiving: A Cornucopia of Gratitude
by
Allen Klein
In
addition to my other books, I am the author of a number of uplifting and
motivational quotation books. I like quotations because they often remind us,
with succinct words, about important matters.
The
quotations below are a small selection from one of my books, Change Your Life!: A Little Book of Big
Ideas. I hope you enjoy them and perhaps use some at your Thanksgiving
dinner to remind everyone around the table to be grateful for all they have in
their life.
God gave you a gift of
86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to
say "thank you”?
WILLIAM ARTHUR
WARD
If the only prayer you
say in your whole
life is “Thank you,”
that would suffice.
MEISTER ECKHART
Appreciation is like an
insurance policy.
It has to be renewed
every now and then.
DAVE MCINTYRE
Birds sing after a
storm; why shouldn't people feel
as free to delight in
whatever remains to them?
ROSE FITZGERALD
KENNEDY
Sunshine is delicious,
rain is refreshing, wind braces us up,
snow is exhilarating;
there is really no such thing as
bad weather, only
different kinds of good weather.
JOHN RUSKIN
Not being beautiful was
the true blessing. . . .
Not being beautiful forced
me to develop my inner
resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
GOLDA MEIR
To be upset over what
you don't have is to waste what you do have.
KEN KEYES, JR.
Health is . . . a
blessing that money cannot buy.
IZAAK WALTON
Count your blessings,
not your crosses,
Count your gains, not
your losses.
Count your joys instead
of your woes,
Count your friends
instead of your foes.
Count your health, not
your wealth.
OLD PROVERB
He who limps still
walks.
STANISLAW LEC
Too many people miss
the silver lining
because they're
expecting gold.
MAURICE SETTER
If you count all your
assets,
you always show a
profit.
ROBERT QUILLEN
Feeling gratitude and
not expressing it
is like wrapping a
present and not giving it.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Excepts
from
Change Your Life!: A
Little Book of Big Ideas
*****
I am grateful for having the opportunity to march in
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2013.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2013.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Mid-Month Mirth Memo, November 2018
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Can One Quotation Change Your Life?
by
Allen Klein, MA, CSP
When
Dale Carnegie wrote, “When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over
us…Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying
us…and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate
is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil,” he probably never
realized how those words would change someone’s life.
But it did. I know because of a letter that I got
from a woman after she read that quotation in one of my books. The letter began:
“You’ll
never know how your book has impacted my life. First of all let me say I’m 67-years-old, and at age 12
was violently raped twice. Never told
anyone, but I haunted me for 55-years…I was angry and full of rage.
I keep this quote [“When we hate our enemies…”] taped to my kitchen cabinet so I see it everyday. I’ve taken my power back, and it has changed my life.”
That letter is only one of several that I’ve
received about the impact a single quotation has made in someone’s life. I’ll share
other stories in future blogs.
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