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Thought Bullets
for
January 2005

Whispered Words of Wisdom

For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the powerful words passed down from generation to generation and shared from culture to culture. I have several books on quotations lining my bookshelves and in quiet moments of reflection, I often read through a few of my favorite quotes. To start off the year 2005, I share a few quotations with you and ask you to reflect on how they relate to the guiding principles for WIN Wyoming. If you haven’t read our guiding principles recently, I can’t think of a better way to kick off your new year. The principles can be found at: www.uwyo.edu/winwyoming/guiding_principles.htm

• Many people spend their health gaining wealth. Then they have to spend their wealth to regain their health. 
  — A.J. Reb Materi
• I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did." — Henry James
• We are all worms. I do believe I am a glowworm." — Winston Churchhill
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
• Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours." — Doug Larson
• The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement." — George Will
• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." — Mark Twain
• The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and just not think about your age." — Lucille Ball
• When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. — Marty Bucella
• Children have more need of models than of critics. — Carolyn Coats
• Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. — Words of life, Charles Wallis
• You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. — Robert Savage
• An optimist is the human personification of spring. — Susan Bissonette
• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. — Rev. Billy Graham
• Kindness is never wasted. Even if it has no effect on the recipient, it at least benefits the bestower. — S. H. Simmons
• If you fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb
• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength but by perseverance. — H. Jackson Brown
• The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel Boorstin (Betty’s side note: Could the greatest obstacle to effectively addressing human obesity be the illusion that we already know the solutions?)
• A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project. — Abigail Van Buren
• Risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. — Tim McMahon
• Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions. — Laurence Shames
• Each year it takes less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work. — The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper
• Part of the art of living is knowing how to compare yourself with the right people. Dissatisfaction is often the result of unsuitable comparison. — Heinrich Sobotka
• When you can see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying. — Joe Kogel
• America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. 
  — Jimmy Carter
• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. 
  — Elie Wiesel

Source:
Reader’s Digest Quotable Quotations.  Pleasantville, NY:  The Reader's Digest Association; 1997. ISBN 0-89577-925-0

Compiled by Betty Holmes, MS, RD, Senior University Extension Educator, University of Wyoming; bholmes@uwyo.edu

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