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Apple Seeds (August 2009)
By Barb Stutesman
08-01: The only thing worth living for is the lifting up of our fellow humans. ~ Booker T. Washington
08-02: What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned? ~ Arthur Burns
08-03: Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. ~ Ada Louise Huxtable
08-04: Each of us can make the path smoother for the people who follow — enabling them to push the envelope of success and achievement even further. ~ Hazel O’Leary
08-05: I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. ~ Randy Pausch
08-06: America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ~ Walter Cronkite
08-07: In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. ~ John F. Kennedy
08-08: Words are a form of action, capable if influencing the future. ~ Ingrid Bengis
08-09: Tradition is not something you inherit. If you want it, you must obtain it with great labor. ~ T. S. Eliot
08-10: There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
08-11: Life lived in freedom is personal responsibility. ~ Martin Buber
08-12: Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface. ~ Randy Pausch
08-13: The price of freedom is responsibility, but it’s a bargain, because freedom is priceless. ~ Hugh Downs
08-14: Humans have to have confidence. You have to help give it to them. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
08-15: Even the most ordinary life is a mystery, if you look close enough. ~ Kennedy Fraser
08-16: We have for a full lifetime taught our children to be go-getters. Can we now say to them that, if they want to be happy, they must be go-givers? ~ Mario Cuomo
08-17: There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. ~ Harry S Truman
08-18: As life is action and passion, it is required that we should share the passion of our time at the peril of being judged not to have lived. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
08-19: Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I’ve always believed that, if you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised at how well things can work out. ~ Randy Pausch
08-20: Go around asking a lot of questions. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities. ~ Clarence Birdseye
08-21: In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
08-22: The expansion of knowledge makes for an expansion of faith, and the widening of the horizons of the mind the widening of belief. ~ Norman Cousins
08-23: A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us. ~ Franz Kafka
08-24: So long as books are kept open, minds can never be closed. ~ Katherine D. Ortega
08-25: There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. ~ Aldous Huxley
08-26: Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier. ~ Randy Pausch
08-27: The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. ~ Senator Edward M. Kennedy
08-28: Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. ~ John McCain
08-29: As individuals each of us must choose whether to live our lives narrowly, selfishly, and complacently, or to act with courage and faith. ~ Madeleine Albright
08-30: Be different — if you don’t have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. ~ Ed Koch
08-31: Ask questions. ~ Susan Sarandon
