Todays Thought

beachcottage

There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long
after they have fallen appart.

There are people who's remembrance gives
light in this world
long after they have passed away

This light shines in our darkest nights
on the road we must follow.
~ The Talmud


a special hug
to those who hurt
xoxo
Patti

TheShopMama

Dear Sweet Patti, It never fails... you always have the perfect thing that touches my heart. Remembering my mom's death one year ago last week, and thankful for her light that still shines! God Bless,Pam

csp

So beautiful Patti
Thinking of Our loved ones who's lights
will never grow dim.

Carrie

beachcottage

Dear Pam

sending you

my thoughts and prayers..It is wonderful to see you posting here..I have missed you



Carrie you are so right

Here's to the light!



Some of the shells

that wash up on the beach

were once very beautiful.



We don't know what kind of journey

they had to take to get them

in their fragile condition.



The same is true for people. Be kind."

~ Linda Gifford







xoxo

Patti

csp

There's no place like home,
there's no place like home,
there's no place like home.
- Frank L. Baum, The Wizard of Oz


Carrie

csp

When you are a bear of very little brain, and you think of things, you sometimes find that a thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it! ~Winnie-the-Pooh



Carrie

TheShopMama

Oh Carrie! Thank you so much. I love Pooh's ponderings, and this oneseemed to especially fit today! Pam

Boop

A minute of "thought" is worth more

than an hour of talk.



Spend some quiet time with your

"thoughts" today.



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

We need a renaissance of wonder.
We need to renew, in our
hearts and in our souls,
the deathless dream, the eternal
poetry, the perennial sense
that life is miracle and magic.

~*~ E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)
American Writer


Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?". Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night".
-Charlie Brown, Peanuts, as written by Charles Schultz
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A small trouble is like a pebble.

Hold it too close to your eye
and it fills the whole world
and puts everything out of focus.

Hold it at a proper distance
and it can be examined
and properly classified.

Throw it at your feet
and it can be seen in its true setting,
just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.
-Celia Luce


xoxo
Patti

Boop

We may run, walk, stumble, drive,
or fly, but let us never lose sight
of the reason for the journey,
or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~*~ Gloria Gaither



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

Always have faith in yourself~~

It is not easy to live life sometimes
and face the world with a smile when you're crying inside.

It takes a lot of courage
to reach down inside yourself.

Hold on to that strength
That's still there and know that tomorrow is a new day with new possibilities.

If you can just hold on long enough
to see this through, you'll come out
a new person - stronger, with more understanding and with a new pride in yourself from knowing you made it." ~ Kathy Obara

XOXO
~~Patti~~

Boop

Live your life each day as you
would climb a mountain. An
occasional glance towards the
summit keeps the goal in mind,
but many beautiful scenes are
to be observed from each new
vantage point.
--Harold B Melchart--



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
-- Robert Browning



"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
-- Chinese Proverb




Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-- Erich Fromm



"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."
-- Kahlil Gibran




Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Life is like mathematics
in which you add your friends,
subtract your enemies,
divide your sorrows
and multiply
your joys.

beachcottage

In This Home
We believe in living deeply,
laughing often and loving always.

We believe we were brought together
to support and care for each other.

We believe in celebrating together-our faith, our heritage, our traditions.

We believe that everyone's feelings count, and that the uniqueness of each of us strengthens all of us.

We believe in the power of forgiveness to heal and the power of love to carry us through.

We believe in one another, in this family,
In This Home.




xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

Some of the shells
that wash up on the beach
were once very beautiful.

We don't know what kind of journey
they had to take to get them
in their fragile condition.

The same is true for people. Be kind."
~ Linda Gifford



xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

To the special
women in our lives
xoxo
Patti

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving


xoxo
Patti

Boop

Most of all the other beautiful
things in life come by
twos and threes by dozens
and hundreds. Plenty of
roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows,
brothers, and sisters,
aunts and cousins, but
only one mother in the whole world.
~Kate Douglas Wiggin~



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

If you have not often
felt the joy of doing
a kind act, you have
neglected much, and
most of all yourself.
--A. Neilen--



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

"The time is now, the place is here.
Stay in the present. You
can do nothing to change the
past, and the future will never
come exactly as you plan or hope for."
--Dan Millman--



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Anonymous

I've just spent over an hour reading through these and feel so energized and motiviated. Here's one I found the other day while reading a book about French Design and it seemed so appropriate for me as I'm heading into year 2 of this journey..and all the things I've learned along the way.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

Boop

Sherry, Thanks for posting that quote, how true it is,especially on this journey we are on...




Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Boop

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. ~Benjamin Harrison~




Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

Anonymous

I had ceased to ask that terrible question -- what is the good of it all? Now it seemed quite plain and simple: the proper object of life was happiness, and I promised myself much happiness ahead.

Leo Tolstoy, "Family Happiness"

Boop

What you plant in the spring of your life
and weed and cultivate in summer,
you will harvest in the fall
to make the winters of your life.
-- Rosie Cash --



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

My doctors told me
I would never walk again~~

My mother told me I would~~
I believed my mother. ~~~~Wilma Rudolph

The "fastest woman in the world" at the 1960 Olympics where she won three gold medals, Wilma Rudolph wore metal braces on her legs as a child

Boop

Every heart that has beat strongly
and cheerfully has left a
hopeful impulse behind it in
the world, and bettered the
tradition of mankind.
~*~ Robert Louis Stevenson



Hugs and God Bless,
Cherie

beachcottage

"Aging is not 'lost youth'
but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
~ Betty Friedan

xoxo
Patti

beachcottage

'It gives me
a deep comforting sense
that ‘things seen
are temporal
and things unseen
are eternal.’ - Helen Keller


peace
love
light
xoxo
Patti