A Smoky Mountain HI

Here is a journey I make each day. Time flows on this side of eternity. I have aged as gracefully as reasonable as can be be expected, and yet feel not a day older in my mind. As I begin a life in the Smoky Mountains I hope you will share my journey as well. www.kleincabin.com

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Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

Retired summer 2010. I am married (wife, Carol, 55 years) with two married children and four grandchildren...one Toy Poodle. Presently live in Tennessee or Florida but spending summers in our cabin in the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg. Five + acres, three streams, and two ponds. Taught college 13 years Florida, Alaska and Tennessee, wife also a teacher. She teaches computer, ABE, GED etcetera. I was the evening supervisor of an adult education school of about 900 students. Minister of counseling at New Hope Fellowship Church of the Nazarene.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Savor the happiness you create in others.

Love multiplies or withers, but rarely remains the same.

It is hard to recognize the good in others until you are doing something good yourself.

The further from truth you reside the more painful your life becomes.

Allow room for the possibilities in your life you have not before considered.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Fearfulness is necessary to maintain a certain level of discontentment.

If your overqualified you should be doing a better job than anyone else at that position.

If you have not learned to enjoy the moment then the joys of an hour will slip away.

Character is comprised by many small decisions made over a lifetime.

To develop better character often old decisions must be replaced.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Sorrow brings solitude but joy is contagious.

Country song: How can I miss you when you won’t leave me alone?

Prepare thoroughly but judge liberally.

The less you judge the more you can help.

Judging others often interferes with understanding them.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Understand yourself to understand others!

Hatred is an ever increasing burden.

It is easier to grasp what is said than what is left unsaid.

We are most protective of our own needs and wants.

Prayer is a way of asking God what we are afraid to tell Him.

Monday, February 23, 2009

The willingness to consider doing wrong is the key to doing wrong.

Does your faith exceed your expectations?

How often are mesmerized by hope?

Answers we do not want are still answers.

Pride goes before the fall, but laziness can get you there first.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Your judgments of others will influence yours.

Judgment of management and judgments of character are not the same.

The more credit you give the larger you balance becomes.

A successful life populated heaven.

Words enlightens, while, sweat inspires.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Time measures the length, Character measures the effect of your life.

The torque of a new idea can be painful.

Require more of yourself than of any of your workers.

Pay a living wage to boost production.

If others find your offensive perhaps you are!

Friday, February 20, 2009

Being a parent is much harder than being a friend, but more beneficial.

Learn more about marriage than work and you will be successful at both.

Loving another is easier than allowing yourself to be loved.

Feed with abandon but eat with restraint.

Discipline is the most difficult virtue.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Think well and work less.

Planning is the second hardest thing you do, making it happen is the hardest.

Plan your time or your time will plan for you.

Don’t let things happen, make them happen.

Fortitude consists of a steady supply of commitment.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Computers and video games have become the narcotics of the mind.

Push yourself to do better than you are willing to do.

Your family must always be your first measure of success.

Your efforts are more important that your success.

Expect no more from others than you give.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Work hard and while keeping your dreams in focus.

Success is far more than avoiding failure.

Helping others is the best form of success.

Integrity is your best defense against envy.

Success often reduces your character.

Monday, February 16, 2009

A helping hand is always strengthened.

There is a vast difference between those who cannot work and those who will not work.

Hard work draws more praise than followers.

Learn to be more flexible and less brittle.

Truth is your ultimate accomplishment.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Love is not a one day affair but a lifetime of memories.

Happiness resides in a well loved person.

Contentment is digested love.

Mutual love mutual dreams!

The greatest hope of love is to be loved in return.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

A heavy dose of love can train most men.

Men are simple, love, food, and respect and they are yours for life.

Women are far more complicated but more diligent.

Love draws conclusions that favor the one loved.

Women are a mystery a lifetime to solve.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Understanding is the key to love.

It takes a Christian mind to comprehend the full meaning of a Christian truth.

Love is a virtue that fills itself over again, as it is emptied.

True love can rarely be misunderstood.

Commitment, not valentines, create the happiness of love.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

A timeline is a plan developed from the past for the future.

Does your quality of work inspire others?

Art is the creations of something others cannot or will not.

Speculate only with you expect to lose.

Hopeless people want no guidance.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Vision is seen on the backs of other’s ideas.

Time management takes time.

Efficiency is always developed by the sacrifice of something important.

Who and what in your life bears no price tag.

Notice the effect of your conversations on the people about you
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Enjoy the day you have instead of waiting for the one you want.

A friend knows your weaknesses and still loves you.

Forgiveness is an action heals the giver.

Marriage in an exercise in hope!

Parenting should be more stressful than on the parents than the children.

Monday, February 09, 2009

Notice mistakes but praise success.

Is your life composed of stepping stones or stumbling blocks?

Judging other is a sure way to loose respect.

Fear creates loneliness.

Gossip is the sin to the speaker and a curse to the listener.

Friday, February 06, 2009

Maybe is the hope of the timid heart.

The more you manage the less you produce.

Praising others means that you have taken the time to notice them.

Delegate hope and manage ideas.

Inspiration can manage from afar.

Honesty is an application of integrity.

Nowhere is the focus of imagination more effective than when coupled with hard work.

Speculation is investment roulette.

To harvest your dreams you must plant them in reality.

The more complex the idea is the more useless it becomes.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Succulent is the hope derived from accomplishment.

Praise is the cheapest raise.

Doing what is right is more difficult than knowing what is right.

A successful man always keeps a garden of ideas.

One way to forget the past is to put your mind to work on something else.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Morning is the garden of ideas.

The most expensive education is the one where you learn only by experience.

Purpose is the application of meaning.

Grief creates its own loneliness.

The tears you cannot cry are the most difficult ones to share.

Monday, February 02, 2009

You are blessed; the feeling of that blessing is up to you.

Everyday is never everyday.

Doing nothing is better than doing what you know is wrong.

Few children are spoiled by too many compliments.

The ability to work is the best application of an education.

Sunday, February 01, 2009

The investment of your time is the true measure of wealth.

Make allowances for the weakness of others as you hope they will for yours.

Some failures are more observable that others does not make them more devastating.

It is wrong to be right with a vengeance.

Loneliness comes from a poor memory
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Our bodies deteriorate but our souls liberate.

Joy unspeakable should be noticeable.

Forgiveness is a lighter burden than bitterness.

Good people do God’s work.

Perhaps your mission in life is not to discourage others.