In 1938 God fashioned my body in the womb of my mother with full knowledge of what it must endure throughout its sojourn.  I am now 72 and find that certain functions which could be relied upon to function perfectly now function as they will. All components have an expected serviceable lifetime.   Some are now being pushed for extra mileage.  As a result I experience discomfort, pain, annoyance and sometimes distress. I can choose to dwell on such things or can choose rather to think of my higher values.
       God has shed His Love into my heart along with wisdom, understanding, and clear reasoning. It has been my delight through the years to shed the light of His Love and understanding to all I encounter.  I desire to exude His love, mercy, and compassion to any I encounter whether they be human, bird, or even the smallest insect. So long as I am able to tender His mercy and compassion I wish to do so. If along the way I experience discomfort, pain, or annoyance in my own body, that is relatively of minor consequence.  My happiness is in being a bear of light and His Love, not in having a flawless body. My main prayer, as a light, is that He give me oil in my lamp to keep me burning. I trust Him to do so.
Harry Hebert

          A Stanford Medical research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder. The response was gratifying; they got 300 responses the day after the ad came out. All from the same person.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
Abraham Lincoln

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A drunk phoned the police to report that thieves had broken in to his car.

"They've stolen the dashboard, steering wheel, break pedal, even the accelerator," he cried out.

However, before the police investigation could get under way the phone rang a second time, with the same voice came over the line. "Never mind," said the drunk with a hiccup, "I got in the backseat by mistake."

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.
William Parrish

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Winston Churchill 

      A lady drove a van full of a dozen screaming kids through the mall parking lot looking for a space. obviously frazzled she coasted through a stop sign. "hey lady have you forgotten how to stop" yelled an irate man. She rolled down the window and said "what makes you think these are all mine"

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
Thornton Wilder

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives:  fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants.  But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk,cheese, and their life.
Author Unknown

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.
Virgil

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire

A man chosen for jury duty very much wanted to be dismissed from serving. He tried every excuse, but none of them worked. On the first day, he decided to give it one more shot. As the trial was about to begin, he asked if he could approach the bench.

"Your honor," he said, "I must be excused from this trial because I am prejudiced against the defendant. I took one look at the man in the blue suit, with those beady eyes and that dishonest face, and I said, "He's a crook! He's guilty, guilty, guilty." "So I could not possibly be on this jury."

"Get back in the jury box," the judge replied. "You're just the kind of juror we are looking for --- a good judge of character. That man is his lawyer."

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
Spencer Tracy

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Stephane Mallarme

We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Thomas Jefferson

disingenuous - lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere