The Pollyanna Board: July 4-July 15

"He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise." ~Lao Tse

"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own." ~Margaret Mead

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~T.S. Elliot

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." ~John F. Kennedy

"You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." ~R. Tagore

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~Aristotle

"Focus, not on the rudeness of others, not on what they have done or left undone, but on what you have or have not done yourself." ~Buddha