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  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited January 2005
    " Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it, is what makes the difference."
    Virginia Satir
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    Nature thrives on patience;man on impatience...Paul Boese
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    We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children...Native American saying

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005

    Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - R.L. Stevenson

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  • NPat
    NPat Member Posts: 485
    edited January 2005
    No one ever damaged their eyesight looking on the brighter side of life.
    Anonymous

    One who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
    Persian proverb

    Ther great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we achieve it.
    Michelangelo

    Pat
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    The souffle is the misunderstood woman of the culinary world...Irma S. Rombauer
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    Let me listen to me and not to them...Gertrude Stein
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    My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors...Bette Midler
    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...
    Blackfoot

    xoxo,Patti
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "We are taught you must blame your father ,your sister,your brothers,the school,the teachers---you can blame anyone,but never blame yourself. It's never your fault.But it's ALWAYS your fault,because if you wanted to change,you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that,isn't it?" ...Katharine Hepburn

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  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited January 2005
    Consult not your fears

    but your hopes and your dreams.

    Think not about your frustrations,

    but about your unfulfilled potential.

    Concern yourself not with what

    you tried and failed in, but with

    what it is still possible for you to do.



    Pope John XXIII
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society."...Martha Carey Thomas
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    " I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing,you will never get it."...Sister Charleszetta Waddles
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    "If one is lucky,a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."...Maya Angelou

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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young...Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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    Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life...Sophia Loren
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    It matters more what's in a woman's face than what 's on it...Claudette Colbert

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. --Author Unknown
    xoxo,Patti
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "Man, like the animals, is meant to live in groups. But the meaning of belonging to a group is found in the comfort of silence and solitude."... Master Kan
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    Perfect wisdom is unplanned.Perfect living offers no grarantee of a peaceful death."...Master Po
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    Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled...Horace

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
    Martin Luther King Jr.

    xoxo,Patti
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    "Live well,

    Learn plenty,

    Laugh often,

    Love much."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson



    Go

    Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

    Confucius















    xoxo,Patti
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    To hear the whispered voice
    of another's heart
    and understand unspoken words
    are talents of those lucky few
    people who are precious
    to the world...Tina Hacker

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    Believe in tomorrow
    and what it will bring-
    let a hopeful heart
    carry you through,
    For things will work out
    if you trust and believe
    there's no limit
    to what you can do...Emily Matthews

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
    Lee Jampolsky

    You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
    Brian Tracy     **********************

    xoxo,PATTI
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    Nothing is so uncomfortable as an afterthought.

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    Worry gives little things big shadows.

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    There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. - J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

    xoxo,Patti
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2005
    "When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
    and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
    you must believe that one of two things will happen:
    There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
    or, you will be taught how to fly" ~ Patrick Overton
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005

    Pepper that is one of my favorite quotes...Hold onto to that thought my friend...Sending you a hug((()))xoxo,Patti

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2005
    Thank you Patti,

    You are a sweetheart of a friend.

    My firend sent me that quote today to remind me that hope is ever-rpesent.

    Pepp
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    "Oh,it's delightful to have ambitions---And there never seems to be any end to them---that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting."...Anne Shirley
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  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited February 2005
    Standing for what you believe in,

    Regardless of the odds against you,

    and the pressure that tears at your resistance,

    ...means courage



    Keeping a smile on your face,

    When inside you feel like dying,

    For the sake of supporting others,

    ...means strength



    Stopping at nothing,

    And doing what's in your heart,

    You know is right,

    ...means determination



    Doing more than is expected,

    To make another's life a little more bearable,

    Without uttering a single complaint,

    ...means compassion...



    Helping a friend in need,

    No matter the time or effort,

    To the best of your ability,

    ...means loyalty



    Giving more than you have,

    And expecting nothing

    But nothing in return,

    ...means selflessness



    Holding your head high,

    And being the best you know you can be

    When life seems to fall apart at your feet,

    Facing each difficulty with the confidence

    That time will bring you better tomorrow's,

    And never giving up,

    ...means confidence.



    Author known by God
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    Everybody is unique
    Compare not yourself with anybody else
    lest you spoil God's curriculum.
    --Baal Shem Tov

    xoxo,Patti
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your evermoving thoughts.*** James Allen

    xoxo,Patti
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    Children are like wet cement;everything that touches them leaves its mark.

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    Time is like a snowflake;while we wonder what to do with it, it melts.

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    A bank account is like toothpaste; easy to take out but hard to put back.

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect...June Jordan
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    Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world...John Evelyn

    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited February 2005
    I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite well that just to be alive is a grand thing.
    --Agatha Christie
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    Here are some wise words from the pen of the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;forget them as soon as you can."

    "Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be emcumbered by your old nonsense."

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited February 2005
    Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there...Josh Billings
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    One of the best thoughts I have read about friendship is this from Oprah Winfrey:
    "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limousine,but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limousine beaks down."

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
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