Todays Thought

MJB

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope."...Sir Winston Churchill
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB

The day becomes more solemn and serene,
When noon is past---there is a harmony
In Autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the Summer is not heard or seen...Shelley
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beachcottage

Don't go through life,
GROW through life.



Eric Butterworth

xoxo,
Patti

MJB

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."...Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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beachcottage

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

— Margaret Mitchell


xoxo,
Patti

Boop

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

-Theodore Roethke


Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

Drop a Pebble in the Water

DROP A PEBBLE in the water: just a splash, and it is gone;
But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on,
Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on out to the sea.
And there is no way of telling where the end is going to be.
Drop a pebble in the water: in a minute you forget,
But there's little waves a-flowing, and there's ripples circling yet,
And those little waves a-flowing to a great big wave have grown;
You've disturbed a mighty river just by dropping in a stone.
Drop an unkind word, or careless: in a minute it is gone;
But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on.
They keep spreading, spreading, spreading from the center as they go,
And there is no way to stop them, once you've started them to flow.
Drop an unkind word, or careless: in a minute you forget;
But there's little waves a-flowing, and there's ripples circling yet,
And perhaps in some sad heart a mighty wave of tears you've stirred,
And disturbed a life was happy ere you dropped that unkind word.
Drop a word of cheer and kindness: just a flash and it is gone;
But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on,
Bearing hope and joy and comfort on each splashing, dashing wave
Til you wouldn't believe the volume of the one kind word you gave.
But there's gladness still a-swelling, and there's joy circling yet,
And you've rolled a wave of comfort whose sweet music can be heard
Over miles and miles of water just by dropping one kind word.
(Author Unknown)


Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

"Nothing is worth more than this day." Goethe


How true!
xoxo,
Patti

Boop

The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.

-John Baines-


Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

MJB

No matter where you go , God goes with you.

Through all around is darkness,
Earthly joys have flown;
My Savior whispers His promise
Never to leave me alone.

Love and Warm thoughts. MJB

Boop

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.


-Søren Kierkegaard -

Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

MJB

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great...Mark twain
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Boop

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

-Albert Pike -


Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

MEMORABLE QUOTE

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

~ Helen Keller


xoxo,
Patti

MJB

" Even a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Take the first step and you are half finished. What have you got to lose? Take the first step!"... Author Unknown
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MJB

Sunshine is delicious,rain is refreshing,wind braces up,snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather,only different kinds of good weather...John Ruskin
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beachcottage

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable



Amen!! How true! Here's to summer my friends!! xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage

Rest is not idleness,

nd to lie sometimes on the grass

on a summer day listening to the murmur of water,

or watching the clouds float across the sky,

is hardly a waste of time.

- John Lubbock









There ought to be gardens

for all months in the year,

in which, several things

of beauty may be then in season.

- Sir Francis Bacon











xoxo,

Patti

beachcottage

India Arie - Healing Lyrics

I release all these disappointment

From my mental physical spiritual and emotional body

Cause I know that spirit guides me

And love lives inside me

That's why I today

I take life as it comes







xoxo,

Patti

beachcottage

Next time a sunrise steals your breath
or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless,
remain that way.
Say nothing,
and listen as heaven whispers,
"Do you like it?
I did it just for you." - Max Lucado



xoxo,
Patti

MJB

"A mind employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity."...Thomas Jefferson
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MJB

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. To me, a winner is someone who recognizes their God given talents,works his tail off to develop them into skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths... Larry Bird (former Boston Celtics star).
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MJB

"There is, finally, only one thing required of us: that is, to take life whole, the sunlight and shadows together;
to live the life that is given us with courage and humor and truth.
We have such a little moment out of the vastness of time for all our wondering and loving.
Therefore let there be no half-heartedness; rather, let the soul be ardent in its pain, in its yearning, in its praise.
Then shall peace enfold our days, and glory shall not fade from our lives." Kendyl Gibbons Minister
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MJB

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy....G.H. Lorimer

There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our heart and imagination...Leigh Hunt

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Boop

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick

Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

MJB

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind... William Shakespeare
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MJB

"Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts."...Anne of Green Gables
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MJB

In every seed to breathe the flower,
in every drop of dew
To reverence a cloistered star
Within the distant blue;
To wait the promise of the bow
Despite the cloud between,
Is Faith-the fervid evidence
Of loveliness unseen....John B Tabb

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MJB

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past!!!!!!!!

A person's own good manners are the best security against the rudeness of others.
Love and warm thoughts.MJB