Laoshi Laurince McElroy
Patchogue (Long Island) NY

Member: Patchogue Chamber of Commerce



What is a Caine-ism?

You can be on a peak with just about anyone. You have to find someone you can be in a valley with. — Unknown
posted September 28, 2008


I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content. — Lin Yutang
posted September 21, 2008


[Discipline is] the ability to obey yourself. — Mike Gentile
posted September 14, 2008


The highest way is not to fight and win in every battle; The highest way is to win in every battle without fighting. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
posted September 7, 2008


If you can’t do something smart, do something right. Serenity
posted August 31, 2008


Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. — Professor Randy Pausch
posted August 24, 2008


Doubt everything at least once, even that two times two equals four. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
posted August 17, 2008


In me are tides no less than the sea. I would have a mind and spirit like water. Water never resists, yet it wears away the most resistant things. — Unknown
posted August 10, 2008


It’s not what I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. Batman Begins
posted August 3, 2008


Love is Harmony, even in discord. Caine-ism
posted July 27, 2008


With all the things I know, one could write a book … Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library. — Sacha Guitry
posted July 20, 2008


A kitten is life’s way of telling you to always enjoy the simplest pleasures to their fullest. — Unknown
posted July 13, 2008


No human relation gives one possession in another … every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. — Kahlil Gibran
posted July 6, 2008


Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the third. — Marge Piercy
posted June 29, 2008


The diamond cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius
posted June 22, 2008


Forget not that the earth likes to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. — Kahlil Gibran
posted June 15, 2008


Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb
posted June 8, 2008