Two doctors and an HMO manager died and lined up at the pearly gates for admission to heaven. St. Peter asked them to identify themselves. One doctor stepped forward and said, "I was a pediatric spine surgeon and helped kids overcome their deformities." St. Peter said, "You can enter." The second doctor said, "I was a psychiatrist. I helped people rehabilitate themselves." St. Peter also invited him in. The third applicant stepped forward and said, "I was an HMO manager. I helped people get cost-effective health care." St. Peter said, "You can come in, too." But as the HMO manager walked by, St. Peter added, "You can stay three days. After that, you can go to Hell.
Via ?
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WORDS OF WISDOM / QUEST FOR QUOTES
- "God created human beings because he was disappointed in the monkeys. Mark Twain
- "I offer you peace, I offer you friendship. I offer you love. I hear your needs. I see your beauty. I feel your feelings. My wisdom comes from a Higher Source. I honor that Source in you." Ghandi's prayer via Saleeni Ki
- "The fact
that astronomies change
while the stars abide is
a true analogy of every
realm of human life and
thought, religion not
least of all. No
existent theology can be
a final formulation of
spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick,
preacher and author
(1878-1969) via
AWA
Former
president Jimmy Carter
"One of
the things that the
United States
government has not
done is to try to
comply with and
enforce international
efforts targeted to
prohibit the arsenals
of biological weapons
that we ourselves
have."Jimmy
Carter on CNN's Larry
King Live Fri Nov.15
2002
- Carter also called
for more stringent
efforts by Washington
"to reduce and
enforce the agreement
to eliminate chemical
weapons, and the same
way with nuclear
weapons."
- "The major
powers need to set an
example... Quite often
the big countries that
are responsible for
the peace of the world
set a very poor
example for those who
might hunger for the
esteem or the power or
the threats that they
can develop from
nuclear weapons
themselves... I don't
have any doubt that
it's that kind of
atmosphere that has
led to the
nuclearization, you
might say, of India
and Pakistan."
Jimmy
Carter
- "The United
States gives only one
one-thousandth of its
gross national product
for international
assistance, while the
average European
country gives four
times as much. Every
time an American gives
a dollar, a citizen of
Norway gives $17.
- "Foreign aid in
this country has a bad
name, but in other
countries, it's a
right thing for the
government to
do."
- "The United
States has given many
nations around the
world cause for
resentment and
scorn."
- "There is a
sense that the United
States has become too
arrogant, too
dominant, too
self-centered, proud
of our wealth,
believing that we
deserve to be the
richest and most
powerful and
influential nation in
the
world.""I
think they feel that
we don't really care
about them, which is
quite often
true."
Former president &
Noble Peace Prize
winner Jimmy Carter.
- "We all have limitations. It is the struggle to overcome them that is the measure of who we are." Ed Clark, Puna resident - "Set your own goals and measure yourself against them." Ed Clark - "You can be more persuasive in simply stating your own views, than in arguing a point at length. KISS: keep it simple...is a great motto. Ed Clark
- " God, save me from your people." bumber sticker
- "It
can be very fearful
for people to go
against the prevailing
notion of things even
though the prevailing
notion is killing
them.
Neal Donald Walsch,
author
"Conversations
with God."
-
"Happiness makes up
in height what it lacks
in length. Robert
Frost
- "No
mistake is more common
and more fatuous than
appealing to logic in
cases which are beyond
her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler, writer
(1835-1902)
- "Nobody
grows old merely by
living a number of
years. We grow old by
deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the
skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul."
Samuel Ullman courtesy
of Mitch Battros via L
Morningstar
- "This is
the most profound
spiritual truth I know:
that even when we're
most sure that love
can't conquer all, it
seems to anyway."
Anne Lamott via L.
Morningstar
- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us, too. I can feel the suffering of millions, and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out." Anne Frank from "The Diary of Ann Frank" via Larry Morningstar
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Ka malamalama o ke Akua
e ho`opuni mai ia kakou.
The light of God surrounds us.
Ke aloha o ke Akua e kipuni mai
ia kakou.
The love of God enfolds us.
Ka mana o ke Akua e ho`opakele
mai ia kakou.
The power of God protects us.
Ke alo o ke Akua e malama mai ia
kakou.
The presence of God watches over
us.
Ma kahi a kakou, e hele aku ai he
Akua na.
Wherever we are, God is.
Amene.
Amen.
Via
Larry Morningstar
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