Morning Coffee Quotes for a New Year

"Transition" -  Northern WI, Summer 2010

"Life's not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away."
- Dean Dillon, Jessie Jo Dillon & Casey Beathard

"Never give advice in a crowd."
- Arabian Proverb

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
- Yogi Berra

"Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone."
- G.B. Stern

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
- Aristotle

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."
- Stephen R. Covey

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
- Mark Twain

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
- Bernard Meltzer

"Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a 'necessary evil', it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil."
- Sydney J. Harris

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."
- Amelia Earhart

"Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love."
- Antiphanes

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."
- Lynwood L. Giacomini

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
- Margaret Thatcher

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
- Plutarch

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
- Melody Beattie

"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
- Jean de La Fontaine

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
- C. S. Lewis