Lazy

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

- Lech Walesa

Death

Death only has to win once; life has to win every day.

- Psychologists Catherine Rawn and Kathleen Vohs

Where Is God?

Where can one find God? I say that He is found on the Cross.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 

- Matthew 16:24 (New English Translation)

How Would You Complete This Sentence?

Life is short ... Don't make it shorter.

Jesus' Friends

If you judge a person by the friends he has, you won't think very highly of Jesus.

work-life balance

If you're looking at work-life balance, I don't really think you can find a correlation that says the company is more productive or more profitable the longer and harder people work. I don't think that's true. You can find correlations between the quality of life within a corporation and the productivity of its employees. It may sound simple, mundane or pedestrian, but I believe that happy employees are more productive employees than those who are always tired and dragging. We encourage an appropriate work-life balance and wellness in the workplace. We spend a lot of time and attention on that: we have constructive websites to suggest to people that they take care of themselves personally and mentally as well as physically. Certainly, a large part of the mental component is making sure you have appropriate relationships with friends and family.

When we talk about work-life balance, I think I learned that lesson the hard way. I probably have a little guilt that I'm living with, particularly when I spend time with my granddaughter and I ask myself whether I devoted this much time and attention to her mother. But fortunately she grew up well and she's a productive, contributing member of society. She's happy and she's presented me with a great granddaughter, so hopefully I didn't do too much damage in that relationship. But if I had to do it over again, I would spend more time with my children than I did.

- Erroll Davis, Jr

the perfect servant

I'm the perfect servant; I have no life.

- Mrs. Wilson in Robert Altman's Gosford Park (2001)

fences

Before you pull down any fence, always find out why it was there in the first place.

- G.K. Chesterton, writer.

not always right

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

- Samuel Goldwyn, American film producer.

a lost love letter

After reading the following news, I hope someone would make a good movie out of this true love story.

A British man and his Spanish former sweetheart have finally married 16 years after they drifted apart, reunited by a love letter lost behind a fireplace for over a decade, reports said on Monday.

Steve Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez, both now 42, fell in love 17 years ago when she was a foreign exchange student in Brixham, southwest England, and got engaged after only a year together.

But their relationship ended after she moved France to run a shop in Paris.

A few years later, in a bid to rekindle their love, Smith sent a letter to her mother's home in Spain. It was placed on the mantelpiece, but slipped down behind the fireplace and was lost for over a decade.

The missing missive was only found when builders removed the fireplace during renovation work.

"When I got the letter I didn't phone Steve right away because I was so nervous," Ruiz-Perez told the Herald Express local newspaper.

"I nearly didn't phone him at all. I kept picking up the phone then putting it down again.

"But I knew I had to make the call."

When they were reunited, it was as if time had stood still, said Smith, a factory supervisor.

"When we met again it was like a film. We ran across the airport into each other's arms. We met up and fell in love all over again. Within 30 seconds of setting eyes on each other we were kissing.

"I'm just glad the letter did eventually end up where it was supposed to be," he said, after the couple married last Friday.

- Lost love letter reunites couple after 16 years

chinese don't get sick?

Foreigners have illness, Chinese people don’t have illness, Chinese pigs even more don’t have illness.

- Gao Hongbin, China’s vice minister of agriculture.

secrets of success

We suck less!

- JP Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon at Harvard Business School centennial conference

God's family

There is no joy like God's joy. There is no family like God's family.

- Gary Thomas, Sacred Parenting.

journey thru the wilderness

Often, we ask God “why” we are compelled into the wilderness. We grumble and complain in our lament and try to hurry our way into the Promised Land by forcing our own way or by seeking to return to Egypt to meet our needs in our time and through our own methods. The journey of all Christ-followers is a journey through the wilderness towards the Cross. We cannot escape it, nor can we go around it. And yet, the wilderness, the Cross, and the ultimate resurrection of Jesus all demonstrate that no matter the wilderness we find ourselves in, God will bring us through to life on the other side. We will not be delivered from the suffering of the wilderness, but with God’s help we can indeed be transformed by it.

- Margaret Manning, The Journey Through the Wilderness, Mar 10 2009.

need...sleep...

The unarguable demands that our bodies make for sleep are a good reminder that we are mere creatures...

- Lauren Winner, Books & Culture, January/February 2006, Vol. 12, No. 1.