Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Nov. 6

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


You know what really ticks me off?…
Time!

Try to keep an open, not a blank, mind.

You gotta at least put your feet on the path
Before God can move them.

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Oct. 30

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


How many times does
The equinox knock?
Twice: once in spring and once in fall.

There may be some things man makes better than God...
Teeth, for example.

The history of the world
Has been written in war.
We need to start
Writing in peace.

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Oct. 23

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


I try to keep my prayers simple and plain.
God’s ability to see my needs far exceeds
My ability to describe them, or explain.

There’s something wrong about a society that is constantly dieting –
constantly searching for a way to keep from overeating in a starving world.

Dementia check:
Anyone who says they feel as good today as they did 30 years ago...
Has completely lost their mind.

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Oct. 16

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.



Some people focus more on a problem’s existence
Than its solution.

Don’t let what you do
Be limited by what you’ve done.

As you get older
You realize you don’t have as much time left
So you’re more careful how you waste it.


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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Oct. 9

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.



When you remove the nonsense from most worries
They disappear.

Disorganization keeps your mind healthy
Think of all the synapses you engage
Trying to remember where you put all those things.

Greed dulls the most brilliant eye!

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Sept. 11

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


The problem with going with the flow
Is you’ve got little choice about who you’re with
Or where you go.

Man is surrounded by many elusive ghosts:
Memories of the past
Dreams of tomorrow
And perceptions of now.

Every time we find something good in someone else
We like ourselves better.


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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Sept. 4

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Marriage:
The process by which we set about changing the traits
In our mates
That attracted us to them in the first place

Doubt blurs goals
Shatters hearts and vision
And pierces souls

Vanity ... the worst profanity
And the most incurable insanity.

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Aug. 28

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Don’t be a problem;
Someone’s liable to solve you.

We are made in God's image.
"Devilution" is the process by which
the Devil tried to bring us
down to his level.

Don’t be troubled when people speak the truth;
Be very troubled if they don’t.

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Aug. 14

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Happiness cures more ills than doctors’ pills

Be wary of those who have no opinion
They are always afraid
And easily swayed

Adversity is the forge of strength

We tend to shelter our children
from that which made us strong

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Observations, Tips and Questions About Life: Aug. 7

By Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Some people’s minds itch as much as some people’s backs do.

Focused can be a synonym for self-centered.

Expectation is like water;
Essential in small doses,
Devastating in large doses.

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: July 31

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Opportunity knocks once;
Flim-Flam raps incessantly

It’s easier to lift a man up
Than to hold him down

Some people are running so hard,
It seems they’re just anxious
To get this life over with

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: July 24

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Seems ironic that the two biggest businesses in the world are
Killing people (war and preparation for war)
And keeping people alive (drugs and doctor bills)

How you treat others is a direct reflection of how much you like yourself

Those who badmouth others to you
Always do…
Badmouth you to others too

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: July 3

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


The problem with hanging out with people who think like you …
Is that they think like you.

Our politicians should be paid about as much as the average person they represent.

If you've got a lot of brain cells...
You've got to make sure they are not bouncing around in too many different directions.

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: June 26

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


I used to be a hands-on kinda guy
Developed callouses
Made me insensitive.

You find a way to do the things that are important to you.

I’ve finally succeeded at something.
I’ve practiced and practiced,
I’m finally totally and perfectly dysfunctional.

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: June 19

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Every pleasure has a price
Pay as quick as you can
The weight of these debts unpaid
Brings down many a good man

I won’t get involved in people’s morality or lack thereof
I won’t talk politics, money, religion or love
So … what would you like to talk about?

A friend who does you wrong
Will never forgive you

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: June 12

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


The more I look, the more I see
Everything is exactly the way it’s supposed to be
It all comes clear checked line by line
God has a plan that’s surely mine

The older we get
The louder we snore
Fortunately, we and our mates
Lose our hearing
At proportionate rates.

Strength can pull down or lift
Only with compassion is it a gift.

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: June 5

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.



Love:
When you’re younger
It's the hunger
When you're older
It's the shoulder

If you’re a man of few words,
Chances are you have a limited vocabulary.

If an understanding could not be misconstrued
Could it then be construed, or strued, or misprostrued?
None of the above?

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: May 30

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


If you don’t know where you’re going
Chances are when you get there
You won't know where you are.

When love is the answer
There is no question.

It would be ideal to me
To run out of time, money and love
Simultaneously.

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: May 23

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.

I wasted youth in search of truth.

   What did I find? Not any.

Then spent my health in search of wealth

   And never kept a penny.

Now I'm old with no truth or gold

   But nonsense lines aplenty. 

History is written

By those who have the most to gain 
From its distortion.

Blame:  
Ignorance, desperation or game,  
The result is the same.

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Observations, Questions and Tips About Life: May 15

Featuring Bill Rhoads

Each week, Sun City resident Bill Rhoads shares with us some of his "tips about life." Bill keeps a written record of "tips" that come to mind and has a strong motivation to share them with others. His purpose in doing so is to stimulate his own thinking and to stir some ideas into the pot of life. He believes in God and the Golden Rule.


Love has no sense of nor desire for domination.

When you’re in pain
It’s hard to feel the pain of others.

Only a fool argues with a fool.
Honesty is the least we owe
And the most we can give.

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