★ Randee's Quotes Of The Day 7/8/09 ★

I love all of your quotes. Thank you for posting these!

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER,
BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER THAT TELLS
WHAT KIND OF LIFE YOU HAVE LIVED!

Thanks, Randee! Some very good ones! I especially liked the one by Marcus Aurelius!

"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week" so true!

On a lighter note I received this quote from a male friend on Father's Day: "Never raise a hand to your child, it leaves the groin wide open" =D

thanks Kelly......

I've never heard that one brfore....

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Why do you feel you are being deemed useless here Randee?  What's going on that I missed hun?  Tell Pamela all about it and I'll make it all better sweetie!  {{HUGS}}

where should I start ? ? ?

these were yesterday's quites, but it's taken me this long to make them public......

a post from last evening.......

the lack of points for anything.well maybe I'm getting a couple for my pics lately....

some people's comments about my postings.....and and and.......  

Thanks, just what I needed today.

thank you too Teresa......

I'm glad I could be a little help..........

YOU ARE NOT WORTHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, thanks for the quotes. i will have to ponder them later.

I ♥ your encouraging words Brenda..........

done pondering yet ? ? ?

I like the Spanish proverb.  Nice.

Good ones

Good collection today, Randee.

Tomorrow, is indeed, the busiest day.

is that because we always procrastinate Karl ? ? ?

thank you my goood friend.........

In the Navy, Randee, we used to say:

"Never do anything today you can put off until tomorrow because sure as s**t, some a**hole's going to come along and do it for you."

Unfortunately, I was always that a**hole to come along...

oh no..........

you were the "main" swabby Karl ? ? ?

I was a electronic radar tech; however, I swabbed many a-deck.

no wonder you have so much knowledge of all of this computer stuff Karl........

you were on the cutting edge of the technologies...... 

Within my fiction, hides historical truth.

When I was in high school, my best friend -- I could count my friends on one hand -- got drafted, went off to 'Nam and died.

Soon after I got out of high school, I got caught in the switches, wrong place, wrong time. Enlisting got me out of trouble.

I figured I could strike for postal clerk -- everyone loves the guy bringing the mail -- do my time, get out, a job with the post office. You get the picture.

I did well on the BBT -- the basic battery test. They filled my head with visions of greatness, talking me into electronics.

Go Navy.

I have my Vietnam Service Medal, though I never went anywhere near Vietnam, serving on an aircraft carrier, the America: CVA 66. 5,000 man crew, a carrier's been called a city at sea.

I worked with a guidance radar, the ANSPG 55b. What we guided was the Terrier missile, a deadly ground-to-air weapon. The system was designed to knock jets out of the sky.

Our system was mostly analog and mostly tubes. Imagine that -- mostly analog and mostly tubes. A dinosaur, it filled a room. I imagine today, the same system is the size of a microwave oven.

I have a Navy Veteran ball cap, which I wear sometimes. Last week, a man approached me, shook my hand and said: "Welcome home."

Yeah. Welcome home.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

----by Vince Lombardi

When your not a winner is when you really do need to have the most faith and discipline in yourself.

Or just lower expectations.

True but even when you lower your expectations you still have to have faith in yourself.  If you think of yourself as a loser chances are you will never be motivated enough to change that.

Winning and losing is relative, often set by the voice in our head, judgement leveled in childhood that we drag behind us.

With luck, we grow up, become self-actualized, no longer requiring external validation.

I agree: we should never lower our self-expectations. What we should do is be realistic and reasonable, liberated from the voice in our head.

that's true Karl, I was born, bred and programmed at a young age to be a winner.......it is almost impossible to de-program that from the mind........ 

While I was programmed at a young age to believe I was never going to amount to anything.  I always thought differently from my parents and siblings.  Always went against the grain therefore I was the "bad" child.  I always had to fight to prove I was worth something.

Are you still fighting, Linda?

Until ten years ago I was.  I suffer from chronic depression.  Ten years ago things got so bad I made a serious attempt at taking my life.  It was a wake up call that I needed to change my way of thinking.  It is very difficult to stop the fighting but the fighting was getting me no where.  Self acceptance is an on going process.  Truthful I hope it is a process than never ends.  I am constantly changing and growing becoming a better person for myself not for anyopne else.

Randee I hope you still don't feel that your "worthless" here.  Look at the great conversation you inspired with your quotes.

Depression has been my lover, my constant companion as long as I can remember.

That is a near perfect description of it.  It is hard for people to understand that Depression is both my friend and my enemy.  From your statement I know you understand.

Depression, like addiction, is near-impossible to understand from the outside. Margaret Mead said the same thing of cultures. Margaret Mead said to completely understand a culture, she'd have to completely immerse herself in the culture.

Mental healthcare being for the wealthy and well-insured, a luxury for the rest of us, I only sat for one professional, when I was in the Navy. They called it neurotic  depression back then, now, I believe, clinical depression. The war was over and they were thinning the herd. I was asked to leave.

I self-medicated -- bourbon -- for the decades to follow, creating yet another problem for myself.

My self medication of choice was Southern Comfort.  Been sober for ten years.

Old Granddad, 100 proof was my poison. I've got many sober years under my feet, knowing full well, one drink and I'm as good a drunk as I ever was.

hey you  I love these  and I got one for you,,  this person is a cool chick  and it her favorite saying of all time  and I hope you enjoy it,,,,

"Smile for someone is thinking of you".....SmeS

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thanks Stephphf f f f f...............

These are great.  You found some top notch quotes.

I remember Dad..........

Dick LaDyque (12/29/30-7/8/01)

nice quotes

I liked them...and you take the time to make your post "pop" with the different fonts and colors

Great quotes!  An extremely interesting comment thread!

I agree with Brenda!!  Maybe Steph is right, you need to be bitchslapped!  ;op