Ol' Lady Saidy

Here's a poem by Howard Goodman called "I Don't Regret a Mile"...cited from "Talent is Never Enough" Written by John C. Maxwell - - who is now one of my favorite authors. I find this poem to define how I feel...basically something "About Me.." :I've dreamed many a dream that's never come true, I've seen them vanish at dawn, But Enough of my dreams have come ture To make me keep dreaming onI've prayed many a prayer that seemed no answer would come, Though I'd waited so patient and long; But enough answers have come to my prayers To make me keep praying onI've sown many a seed that's fallen by the wayside, For the birds to feed upon But I've held enough golden sheaves in my hands To make me keep sowing onI've trusted many a friend that's failed me And left me to weep alone But enough of my friends have been true-blue To make me keep trusting onI've drained the cup of disappointment and pain, And gone many a day without a song But I've sipped enough nectar from the roses of life To make me want to live on
____________________________________________________________ _____________________Here are a few quotes from a book that I just finished reading. This book has instilled positive energy back into my life.
"Dare to Dream.........Then do IT!" Written By John C. Maxwell
"GOD will help you be all you can be - All you were originally designed to be, but HE will never permit you to be successful at becoming someone else." - Joyce Meyer, Pastor
"Beware whe the great GOD lets loose a thinker on this planet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essayist & Poet
"Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler of many things. Enter into the Joy of the LORD." JESUS CHRIST, in Matthew 25:21
"Life is a series of outcomes. Sometimes the outcome is what you want. Great. Figure out what you did right. Sometimes the outcome is what you don't want. Great. Figure out what you did [WRONG] so you don't do it again" - Phychologist Simone Caruthers
"If you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up." - General George S. Patton
"All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another." - Plotinus, Roman Philosopher
"Take charge of your thoughts." - Plato, Greek Philosopher
"A good plan vigorously executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week" - George S. Patton
"Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life." - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer & Nobel Laureate
"Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Post
"If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men will ever know." - Thomas Wolfe, U.S. Novelist
"Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the minner that works and brings it out." - Lady Marguerite Blessington, British Author
"The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failure to use the one talent." - Edgar W. Work
"Think about That!!!....Exactly!!"