QUOTES FOR THE DAY

Here are my quotes for the day:

And the lesson to be learned is this: We cannot be kind enough or thin enough or generous enough, we cannot be successful enough or attractive enough for those who abuse us to stop abusing us. We cannot make anyone love us. We cannot change anyone. It is not our job to hurt someone who has hurt us, to change someone who is self-destructive, to convince someone who doesn't love us to love us. As long as our well-being and self-worth are dependent on those around us, we are children hanging on our father's affection, waiting for our mothers to call us "darling," our teachers to tell us we are smart, our friends to include us in their clubs, we are waiting, waiting for enough kindness to break open the tight bud of our hearts.

- Geneen Roth, When Food is Love

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Based on a quote by Dr. Kent M. Keith

TYPICAL MIKE

In the new house, Mike can generally be found in his study/Game Emporium Deluxe, which is upstairs in the corner, and I am generally wandering around downstairs or out in the garden. Of course, any time I want to communicate with him, this involves either running to the bottom of the stairs and shouting, running up the stairs and knocking, running from the end of the garden to under his windows and shouting, or some other such nonsense. Most of the time, if I try just shouting, he doesn't hear me, and I end up having to run upstairs anyway.

So I did what any sane person would do in this situation.

I went to the store and bought a set of walkie-talkies.

Now, mind you, when I told Mike what I was going to do, he spent considerable time telling me how silly the entire idea was. I, of course, ignored him completely and went out and bought the radios.

When I came home, Mike bounded over to me and said, "Let me see let me see let me see," proceeded to convince me that the only logical place to keep the recharging station is on his desk, and spent the next ten minutes playing with them. He was disappointed to discover that the batteries will take about 14 hours to charge, which is why there was limited playing to be done right away.

I will bet you any amount of money that the next time a friend comes over, he will show them off and find all kinds of silly uses for them. He has already suggested that this means he can go to the pub and have me call him when dinner is ready.

Cheeky.