HOME TIPS

To help stop a column of ants advancing to your doorstep, first sprinkle boric acid or borax powder along the trails. Then pour the powders near the entrances and exits of your house, but don't allow tiny children or pets to come in contact with these powders.

When You Travel put a business card with your home or cell phone number inside your checked luggage, in case it's lost. Stick address labels on your cell phones, computers, music players and cameras.

If Your Credit Card is Stolen, call the credit card company immediately to report this. Then contact your local police to file a report. Make and keep copies of it because you will have to prove this fact to merchants and creditors. Notify the credit reporting companies to have them put an extended fraud alert on your accounts.

To get dried-on hair spray off glass, porcelain, glass or fiberglass shower stalls, pour rubbing alcohol on a clean terry or micro fiber cloth and wipe well. You may have to repeat this.

Intelligent quotes

Ultimate perfection does not include any action or good conduct, but only knowledge.
-Maimonides,

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active-memoried, and persistently experimental. Leo Stein

The branches' length depends on the trees' roots, and right speech on the man's sense.
-Ibn Gabirol,

The man who regards life...as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
-Albert Einstein,

Spend your money on good books, and you'll find its equivalent in gold of intelligence.
-Immanuel

My friend is he who will tell me my fault in private.
-Ibn Gabirol,

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
-Maimonides,

In the winter the earth is pregnant. It bears within itself a great secret. In the summer, the secret is disclosed.
-Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my troubles.
-Kaminer, Baraitot de Rabbi Yitzhak

Do everything. One thing may turn out right.
-Humphrey Bogart

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
-Julian of Norwich

A man may have never entered a church or a mosque, not performed any ceremony; but if he realizes God within himself, and is thereby lifted above the vanities of the world, that man is a holy man, a saint, call him what you will...
-Vivekananda

Respect happiness. Respect happy people. Make happiness the goal of your life.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing, and body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?
-Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Use a half-smile to radiate well-being to yourself and to people around you. Establish contact with others in a warm, kind, and friendly way.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself to yourself.
-Rumi

Give thanks throughout the day. Be thankful for every blessing you receive. Say "thank you" with grace.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Cultivate your own spirit. Do not look for something outside yourself.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

The conscious mind is the editor, and the unconscious mind is the writer.
-David Mamet

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-Erin Majors

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-Grandma Moses

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
-Ethiopian proverb

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
-Doug Larson

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
-Kahlil Gibran

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
-Grace Murray Hopper

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.-Jack Penn