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Anyway

A sign on the wall of Shishu Bliavan,
the children's home in Calcutta

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"A cemetery is a repository for unfulfilled dreams,
 great ideas never formulated
 and potential energy never realized, nor acted upon."
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Wandering star - 

"Snow can burn your eyes,
 but only people can make you cry"

  Lee Marvin, Paint your Wagon

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"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by
night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the
day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the
day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream
with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."

T. E. LAWRENCE, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool the pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."


Emily Dickinson

 

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reflect006.jpg (89874 bytes)"One hundred children, brave boys and girls
They come from nations all over the world
One hundred children marching along
One hundred children singing their song"

100 Children, by Tom T Hall

reflect007.jpg (77765 bytes)"Windows are very good things to have.
They let you look out,
And see all the different things.
And they let you look in,
To see all the other different things.
And do you know what is the most
Special window of all?
The window in your heart,
That's between the Heaven-in-the-earth,
And the Heaven-in-the-sky."

Mattie Stepanek

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"Happiness is a continuation
of happenings
 which are not restricted"

Deepak Chopra

Let us become beneficiaries
and not victims of our experiences.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.

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Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it!

--- Mother Teresa

1st-child.jpg (49860 bytes)Will the future ever arrive?...Should we continue to look upwards?  Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished?  The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threaten on all sides by the dark forces that surround it; nevertheless, no more in danger than the star in the jaws of the clouds.

Victor Hugo

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"Toto, I have a feeling
 we're not in Kansas anymore."

Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

bison.jpg (70283 bytes)A leader....takes people where they want to go.
A great leader.... takes people where they don't
necessarily want to go, but ought to be

Rosalyn Carter

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"I believe that you only really pay attention
 to what you discover for yourself"

Chris Matthews, Hardball

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"Our goal is to create a path and
 leave a trail for others to follow"

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"We are not human beings with spiritual experiences.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Teilhard de Chardin

One of these days, it won't be long,
he'll call your name, and you'll be gone.

Sam Penny, bartender, Worcester, MA 

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Quotation from Ralph Marston 

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"Give of your talents without expectation of compensation other than the blessings and feelings that one always receives from giving.  The most meaningful work that you will do during your professional career will usually be that which you do without pay"

Donald B. Doty M.D.

man&bench.jpg (53640 bytes)God,  grant me the serenity to
 accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
 and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Selfless
Fearless
Timeless
Priceless 

two-Children.jpg (44241 bytes)The grand essentials
 to happiness in this life are something to do,
someone to love and something to hope for

Joseph Addison

Tomb_US.jpg (42991 bytes)"There's never been anybody exactly like you before,
and there will never be anybody exactly like you in the future.   You're the only one."

Fred Rogers

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"People want to find a "meaning" in everything
and everyone.  That's the disease of our age, an age
that anything but practical but believes itself to be
more practical than any other age."   

Picasso 

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"for those who are searching, join us and together let us make the network to help children with heart disease globally big enough to be equal to the task."

Ami Cohen MD

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

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Lord, be the pilot that guides and controls my life!

Robert H. Schuller

Citidel.jpg (67114 bytes)Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understandings;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And he shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

 -Thomas Grey



Be Someone For Somebody\

-Mother Teresa

 

If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude

Maya Angelou

"I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who"

Rudyard Kipling

 

The grand essentials
 to happiness in this life are something to do,
someone to love and something to hope for

Joseph Addison 

God, grant me the serenity to
accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
 and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

To lead in the 21st century...
You will be required both character and competence.

General H Norman Schwarzkopf


Courage, Strength, Character, Discipline, Justice

 Compassion, Care, Mercy, Understanding

Cooperation/Collaboration/Consensus
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
At all the time you can.

Anonymous

SENZA SOLDI
I SANTI NON
FANNO MIRACOLI

(Without Money, the Saints don't perform miracles)


Four Steps to intention;
Discipline
Wisdom
Love
Surrender

Dr Wayne W. Dyer


People are admired for what they do,
respected for what they say,
and remembered for what they write.
He's Dead, I'm Crippled, Your Lost -
I guess it's always like that - War

Richard Burton
The Longest Day, 1961

You got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going because you may not get there!

Yogi Bera



The graveyard is the richest place;
so many people die full of potential.

Curtis Martin

Ability is what you are capable of doing;
Motivation determines what you do;
Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

The way of a superior man is three fold:
Virtuous, he is free from anxieties;
wise, he is free from perplexities;
bold, he is free from fear.

            Confucius


The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for it when it comes

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble;
a rabble Is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

George Hegel (1770—1831),
The Philosophy of Right, 1821


The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face
and know them for what they are.

Marcus Aurelius

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Brook Adams (1838—1918), The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn’t care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

...men go to greater lengths to avoid fear
 than to obtain what they desire

Da Vinci Code

"American people generally do the right thing
 after first exhausting every other alternative"

Winston Churchill

 

Our Cardiothoracic Surgery Legacy
(in 6 languages)

 

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Action (1834-1902),
letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
 underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!

Emily Dickinson


"Live as if you were to die tomorrow,
 Learn as if you were to live forever"

Sarah A. Wilkinson,
Clark University Graduate, Worcester, MA


Goals / Attitude / Focus

The Chain Linked Fence
 

...sow a thought and reap an act,
sow an act and reap a habit,
sow a habit and reap a character,
sow a character and reap a destiny;
sow a destiny and reap a legacy
Hindu saying