Wise Words

Double the life of cut flowers

To ensure that the bright flowers you clipped from the garden bloom for days, drop a piece of charcoal into an opaque water-filled vase and place the flowers inside. The porous briquette will act as water filter, trapping chlorine and other contaminants that speed wilting.

Great challenges

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."

-- William Fredenick Halsey

No Tears

No man (woman) is worth your tears, but the one who is, won't make you cry.

The Time value

Treasure every moment that you have! Treasure it even more, when you share with someone special, special enough to spend their time with you. Remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!!!

Learning from failure

You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. . . . Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

-- Sherman Finesilver, US District Court Judge

Keeping ants at bay

If you notice ants at your entryway, take a stick of chalk and draw thick lines around the perimeter. The calcium carbonate in chalk is a nontoxic ant repellent, so the insects won’t cross the border.

You can also draw lines around outdoor pet bowls to keep ants away from pet food.

Protect your kids

When going out with the kids, before you even leave the house, use your camera phone and get a picture of them. Then, if they should disappear you can send the picture to the proper authorities showing EXACTLY what they look like and how they are dress. It can be sent to every police computer. Also, try to show something next to them to see how tall they are. Like next to a light switch, a piece of furniture, etc.) It only takes a few seconds to do this, and could mean the difference between life and death.

Sleeping on it

If a complicated issue has you stuck, take the advice of United Kingdom researchers and catch a few winks. Subjects faced with tricky word problems solved more of the challenging puzzles that had them stumped after they got some sleep, compared with their counterparts who either set the task aside for a walking break or kept plugging away with no reprieve. It seems that sleep helps the brain retrieve information that is not top-of-mind but that proves crucial to solving the task at hand.

Long Life

If you want to live a long life avoid hospitals. More people die in hospitals than anywhere else.

Be smart and think about it!

We don't see things as they are. We see them as we want them to be!

Key to relationships

Hearing is inherent, but listening is learned. In a relationship, nothing is more important than listening to the other partner.