Fred's Sayings of the Day and Telephone Messages

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Don’t do something permanently stupid because your temporarily upset.

"John Lennon once said when I was 5 years old my mother told me the whole secret to life was being happy. When I got to school our teacher gave us the assignment to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up and I wrote down 'Happy'. The teacher told me I didn't understand the assignment and I replied no, you don't understand life".

When you forgive you heal, when you let go you grow.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

In a world where one can be anything they want, be kind.

When you make a commitment you build hope, when you keep it you build trust.

Why do we only rest in peace, why don’t we live in peace as well?

To plant a garden is to believe in the future – Audrey Hepburn

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Do all the good you can

By all the means you can

In all the ways you can

In all the places you can

For as long as you can. – John Wesley

Don’t confuse my personality and my attitude

My personality is who I am, my attitude depends

On who you are

 

I’m OK, your OK if the check’s OK.

 

When they ask you how I dance tell em’ close.

 

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

 

It was fun while it lasted, but it didn’t last long.

 

Most people will see you as you see yourself.

 

We are all shifting the deck chairs around waiting for our individual ship of life to hit that inevitable iceberg and sink.

 

Life is too serious to be taken seriously. 

 

Change is inevitable – Growth is optional.

 

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

 

Make little decisions with your head and big decisions with your heart.

 

When you can be either brilliant or pleasant, choose pleasant.

 

It’s easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.

 

A full life is not determined by how long one lives, but how well.

 

It’s hard to make mistakes with one’s mouth shut.

 

If you don’t try new things you won’t learn new things.

 

There are never any unimportant acts of kindness.

 

People want understanding, not advice.

 

Nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

 

Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

 

Change should always be by design, not default.

 

Money will buy a good dog, but only love will make him wag his tail.

 

Never take yourself too seriously as others may start to do the same thing.

 

No matter what happens there is always someone who knew it would.

 

If all you do is what you’ve done then all you’ll get is what you’ve got.

 

The only kind of change most people like is the change in their pocket.

 

 

"Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out and meet it"

"Most people see you as you see yourself"

"You can't be all things to all people, but you can be some things to a few people ever so often"

"Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute"

"There is no subsitute for incomprehensible good luck"

"Snow and adolescence are two problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough"

"An optomist goes to the window each morning and says "Good morning God". A pessimist goes to the window each morning and says "Good God; it's morning"

"The trouble with experience is by the time you get it your too old to do anything with it"

"The more one learns the less they know"

"One can get by on charm for about 5 minutes and then they better know  something.