Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Mark Twain

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

~ Pierre Troubetzkoy

Think on This ...
And you each here may judge within yourselves as to whether the world is growing better or not according to that conviction, that feeling within thine own self that what the Christ-mass or Christmas spirit means is being manifested in thy daily life and thy associations with thy fellow men.

Edgar Cayce Reading 262-116

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

~Doug Larson

Think on This ...
For, man in his nature-physical, mental and spiritual-is a replica, is a part of whole universal reaction in materiality. Hence there are those elements which if applied in a material way, if there is the activity with same of the spirit and mind, may bring into the experience of each atom of the body force or cell itself the awareness of the Creative Force or God. It may only rise as high as the ideal held by the body-mind. Hence there is the one way, the source. For in Him is all life, all health, all mind, all knowledge and immortality to the soul-mind itself.

Edgar Cayce Reading 3492-1

Why do "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

George Carlin

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

~ Unknown

Think on This ...
. . . the church is within yourself and not in any pope nor preacher, nor in any building but in self! For thy body is indeed the temple of the living God, and the Christ becomes a personal companion in mind and in body; dependent upon the personality and individuality of the entity as it makes practical application of the tenets and truths that are expressed.

Edgar Cayce Reading 5125-1

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

~ Henry Ford

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

~ Robert Benchley

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

~ Andy Rooney

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

~ Albert Einstein

What you give you get, ten times over.

~ Yoruba Proverb

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

~ Sugar Ray Robinson

"You are what you do,not what you say you'll do." - Carl Jung

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.” "---Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg

Seriously have some vision people enough with trying to curry favor to win elections how about putting YOUR country first and to the devil if you get funded or not by the ruthless bastards who control the largess of our national wealth - deal those bums a blow legislatively and govern independent of their agenda for once in your lives.

Capitalism ungoverned devours its resources, bleeds its labor, and annihilates itself. - Paul Burke

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

~ Katherine Hepburn

"... I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious." - Elizabeth Edwards

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

~ Alexander Calder

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

~ Mohandas Gandhi

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~ Helen Keller

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

~ James Thurber

Republicans say a lot of things, but not a lot of them are true.

What really stimulates the economy is when people who are NOT rich have money to spend on the things they need.

It is time to let the tax cuts for the wealthy expire. We were told they would stimulate the economy and create jobs. They did not.

We've got real problems as a country - and none of them are going to be solved by giving millionaires more tax cuts.

Information is the currency of democracy....
-Thomas Jefferson

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Americans have been living a middle-class lifestyle on working-class wages – and bridging the gap with credit.