"The important thing is not to stop questioning.
   Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
                                                                       – Albert Einstein

About Albert Einstein

The brilliant physicist Albert Einstein became an international icon for his groundbreaking theory of relativity. He was born in Germany in 1879 and began his seminal work while at the Swiss Patent Office. He later fled the Nazi regime, moving to the United States to teach at Princeton. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize. He declined Israel's invitation to become its president, saying he lacked the necessary people skills. He died in 1955.

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
– Mary Kay Ash

About Mary Kay Ash

The bumblebee is the corporate symbol of Mary Kay Cosmetics, founded in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash and her son. Ash was born in Texas in 1918 and worked in direct sales until she retired in 1963 to write a book for women in business. Her book morphed into a plan, which became Mary Kay Cosmetics. Ash had an unconventional business approach: She believed in praise and encouragement, and awarded pink Cadillacs to her top salespeople. She died in 2001.

"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want."
                                                                 - Zig Ziglar

               "We don't stop playing because we grow old;
                   we grow old because we stop playing."
                                 - George Bernard Shaw

This is one of my favorite sayings:

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
– Marcel Proust

About Marcel Proust

French writer Marcel Proust is renowned for his book In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past), an autobiographical novel that Somerset Maugham called the greatest fiction to date. He was born near Paris in 1871. He had a severe asthma attack at age nine that nearly killed him; he remained in poor health much of his life. His bedroom was lined with cork for soundproofing; he wrote his novel at night and slept during the day. It took him 13 years to write the 3,200 page opus. He died in 1922.

 

"If you learn to appreciate more of what you already have, you will find yourself having more to appreciate."
Michael Angier

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist,
           but in the ability to start over."
                                                            – F. Scott Fitzgerald

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, who wrote as F. Scott Fitzgerald, is best known for his novel The Great Gatsby. He was born in St. Paul in 1896. Fear of mortality spurred him to write the novel This Side of Paradise while in the Army. It was rejected twice by Scribner's before they finally published it. His wife Zelda's schizophrenia was the basis for his novel Tender Is the Night. After they separated, he moved to Los Angeles and wrote screenplays for studio films. He died in 1940.

                It's not even Mother's Day. It's just Sunday
                 but this thought reminded me of Moms

   IF GOD HAD A REFRIGERATOR
 YOUR PICTURE WOULD BE ON IT

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't."
                                                     – Thomas A. Edison

About Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison, the American inventor who made his early fortune with the stock ticker and the phonograph record, is credited with inventing the light bulb — although he simply improved upon the original idea by making the bulb burn longer. Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio. He was a dreamer in school; his teacher called him "addled," and his mother taught him at home. He used the money from his inventions to set up a lab with a number of employees; he held a record 1,093 patents in his name. He died in 1931.

HER QUOTE IS CORRECT FOR ME PERSONALLY AFTER MY EXPERIENCE OF "WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH" DURING 2001 - 2010.

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
                                                              – Isak Dinesen

About Isak Dinesen

Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Karen Blixen, the Danish author famously portrayed by Meryl Streep in the film of her best-selling memoir, Out of Africa. She was born near Copenhagen in 1885. In 1914, she and her new husband moved to Kenya to run a coffee plantation. She stayed on after divorcing her husband ten years later, living an unusually independent life. Her book of stories, Seven Gothic Tales, sold well, but Out of Africa made her a worldwide success. She died in 1962.