THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT, THE STARFISH STORY

One day walking along the shore, a teacher and a student came upon a beach littered with thousands of storm-tossed starfish, writhing and dying in the hot sun.  Without a word, the teacher scooped up a starfish and gently deposited it in the waves.

Overwhelmed by the sheer multitude of the suffering creatures, the student just stood and watched as the teacher picked up another starfish, and jet another, releasing them in the healing safety of the cool green water.

At last, the student spoke.  “Teacher, what is the use in even trying? There are too many.  How can you make any difference?”

The teacher lifted another starfish from the burning sand and carried it into the surf to set it free,  Then turned to the student. “I’ll bet it made a difference to that one!”

–Author unknown

THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT, ALBERT EINSTEIN

A person that never made a mistake is someone that never tried anything new.

–Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can counted.

–Albert Einstein

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

–Chessmaster, Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakowen

THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT, C.S. LEWIS

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and only reading it once.

CS Lewis

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, only how we play the hand.

–Randy Pausch

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

–Mark Twain

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

–C.S Lewis

THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT, ALBERT EINSTEIN AND MORE

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

The EXPERT in anything was once a BEGINNER.

NOW is LATER

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.

–Albert Einstein

I can let things happen… or I can make them happen.

THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK, Dreams

Dreams do come true, for those that work while they dream.

–PS. I Love You

Don’t be afraid to say, ‘I don’t know.’

Don’t be afraid to say, ‘I made a mistake.’

–Life’s Little Instruction Book

Thought is free.

–William Shakespeare

Life has no remote, get up and change it yourself.

–www.spin

Gratitude turns what we have…into…enough.

–www.spin

THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT

Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

–Dr. Seuss

Today I will behave as if this is the day I will be remembered.

–Dr. Seuss

Whenever I learn something the hard way, I like to teach it the easy way.

–Draysten Bailey,  (Idaho Senior)

THURSDAY THOUGHT

Always remember, you are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
smarter than you think,
and twice as beautiful as you imagine.

Attitudes are contagious.
Is yours worth catching?

It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

It is when you step out of your comfort zone, when you feel most alive.