Monday Morsels 083010

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." - 19th Amendment
       90 years have come and gone since the amendment that grants women the right to vote was officially ratified by Tennessee, the 36th and last state needed to make women's suffrage official, on August 18th, 1920.
-Matt O'Shea (Guest writer at Beliefnet.com)


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

This has nothing to do with anything.  I just found it somewhere and liked that face.

This year, August has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, all in one
month.  It happens once in 823 years.
I probably will miss it next time!

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson

Photo by Weezer

Always do right.  This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

~ Mark Twain

Anyone who is indifferent to the well-being of other people and to the causes of their future happiness, can only be laying the ground for their own misfortune.

- Dalai Lama