That's My World!

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and share your world with others from all over Our World! Just click on the post title, read the rules, sign up and play with us! So! How is your world this week? Have you taken time to see the beauty there? What is it about your world that makes you smile or laugh or feel grateful for?  My world has had it all this week! Beautiful, colorful, gray and gloomy, blue and clear! All you have to do is wait for the right color! Unfortunately, I'm the impatient kind!  But here is a sample of my world this past week!!

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

 

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather

That's My World!

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and share your world with others from all over Our World! Just click on the post title, read the rules, sign up and play with us! So! How is your world this week? Have you taken time to see the beauty there? What is it about your world that makes you smile or laugh or feel grateful for? Hope you all had a wonderful and very Happy New Year! So, on this first My World for 2011 I thought I'd share a bit of my world and some thoughts about the new year!!

New Year's Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. 

~ Mark Twain

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.  

~ Mark Twain

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.  ~Author Unknown

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.  ~Jay Leno

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My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me! All our worlds are so different. What is it about yours that moves you, thrills you, saddens you? That gorgeous sunshine returned on Friday and I haven't seen our skies this blue in ages! What a thrill! Click on the icon and join us in sharing those notable aspects of our worlds!

As I look around my world each week I am stunned by how much beauty there is and in many ways these posts are my way of expressing my gratitude for the fullness of my life. So, today's quotes reflect the gratitude that I feel.



You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach



The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle



God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”
William A. Ward



Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust



We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder



There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

That's My World

My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me! All our worlds are so different. What is it about yours that moves you, thrills you, saddens you? The only thing about my world that is lacking lately is sunshine! Ah, well! Click on the icon and join us in sharing those aspects of our worlds! And here are mine for the day!

A colorful trip to the market!


If you don't appreciate what you've got, you've got nothing.
~ David L. Weatherford



A flower that is not the prettiest in the garden may yet have the loveliest fragrance.
~ David L. Weatherford



Those who stop to whine every time they step on a pebble will never make it to the top of the mountain.
~ David L. Weatherford



A flower is an educated weed.
~ Luther Burbank



We never stand taller than when we stoop down to help someone who has fallen.
-- David L. Weatherford



What do I lose if I assume everything will turn out for the best?
-- David L. Weatherford



If you don't appreciate what you've got, you've got nothing.
~ David L. Weatherford

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My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me! Today I am dedicating my post to the men and women who have given their lives that we might continue to enjoy Our World.

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
~Thomas William Parsons



Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ John F. Kennedy



The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~ Rev. Aaron Kilbourn



The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots. ~ Randy Vader



I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

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Look around you! What makes up your world? What do you love about it? What do you hate about it? My World is the place you can share that with others and it is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team -- Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me! So click on the icon, sign in and not only share your world but have the opportunity of seeing the world of many others! The least expensive way I know to see the very best of all our worlds.

We finally had some sun, I finally had a car and I headed out to my favorite places and a couple of areas I hadn't been before. I never tire of the places and things that I see in my world these days!



To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson



All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie



Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri



Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Mahatma Gandhi



It's good to shut up sometimes.
Marcel Marceau



Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb



It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot



And a moon in a blue sky!

That's My World

What do you find beautiful, interesting, funny, moving about your world? Join us this week and every week and share your world with us! My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me!

We have had some gorgeous weather the past few days and I resumed my quest for lovely things to share with you today! It was wonderful down at the harbor, lots of sun, colorful sailboats!



We are each responsible for our own happiness.
Dr. Lee Jampolsky



Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy



Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell



To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
August Rodin



And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin



Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval



Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson