All three of my sons are cross country runners and they chose the theme for today: Running.

“Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.”
~ Charles Schulz

“If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.”
~ P.Z. Pearce

“You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that’s in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That’s the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you’re good enough.”
~ Bill Persons

“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.”
~ Erma Bombeck

“Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.”
~ Jimmy Carter

“I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.”
~ Rita Rudner

“Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.”
~ Unknown

The quote chosen by all three as a favourite quote:
“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.”
~ George Sheehan

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“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
~ Plutarch

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
~ Theophrastus

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
~ Maria Edgeworth

“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
~ Elizabeth I

“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
~ Bonnie Friedman

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
~ Will Rogers

My favourite Quote:
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
~ Carl Sandburg

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“Just don’t give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
~ Ella Fitzgerald

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
~ Annie Dillard

“To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
~ Oliver Goldsmith

“Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”
~ Jacob Braude

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it..”
~ H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”
~ Charles Darwin

“Decide what you want, and decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
~ H.L. Hunt

“There isn’t any virtue where there has never been any temptation.”
~ Margaret Deland

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
~ Phillips Brooks

My favourite Quote:
“When the character of the person is not clear, look at his friends .”
~ Japanese Proverb

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My theme this week is Books!
“ A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting..”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
~ Ernest Hemingway

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
~ Marcel Proust

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
~ C.S. Lewis

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
~ Paul Sweeney

“A good library is a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”
~ Samuel Niger

“I cannot live without books.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
~ Vincent van Gogh

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

My favourite Quote:
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
~ Cicero

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I could not decide, so a bit of everything!
““Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
~ Steve Jobs

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
~ Andy Warhol

“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
~ George Sheehan

“Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for–because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.”
~ Peter Marshall

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
~ Anna Quindlen

“Don’t be afraid to give your best at what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
~ Dale Carnegie

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
~ Robin Williams

“Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.”
~ Buddha

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
~ Henry Van Dyke

My favourite Quote:
“Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.”
~ Jesse Jackson

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Living!
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
~ Socrates

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
~ Winston Churchill

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
~ James Bryant Conant

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.”
~ Charles Richards

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
~ Anatole France< "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny!”
~ Albert Ellis

“Adversity and loss make a man wise.”
~ Welsh Proverb

“Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.”
~ Mary Wollstonecraft

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
~ Victoria Holt

“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.”
~ Gail Godwin

My favourite Quote:
“The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him no good.”
~ Ann Landers

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I could not decide, so a bit of everything!
“ If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
~ Dolores Huerta

“First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.”
~ Epictetus

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
~ Milan Kundera

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
~ Peter Ustinov

“Sometimes you look at a person and see a cynical snake. Someone else sees a joyful lover. You’re both right!”
~ Rumi

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”
~ St. Francis De Sales

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

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

“We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”
~ Shana Alexander

My favourite Quote:
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
~ Theodore Seuss Giesel

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A few of my favourite quotes on living
“” People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning.”
~ Lao-Tzu

“What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.”
~ F.Scott Fitzgerald

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
~ Flora Whittemore

“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”
~ Jack Lemmon

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”
~ Anatole France

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My favourite Quote:
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
~ Helen Keller

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