Favorite Quotations

lovemyfamilysomuch · June 2010

Thank you Ruth! That really inspires me. I work with needy kids and sometimes I feel I am not making a real difference. One heart at a time! xo

ruthbru · June 2010

Here's another good one along that line:

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe

ruthbru · July 2010

This was in the advice column in the local paper. It's by Leonard Cohen

"Ring the bells that still can ring.

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in. "

barbe1958 · July 2010

Love it!

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

As Mother Teresa once said -
"The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway."

iodine · July 2010

I belileve she also said: if you cannot help milliions, help One.

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

Thanks Iodine!

Mother Teresa continues to inspire me.

Here is a quote from Miriam Polster, a very famous Gestalt therapist:

'It's all very nice to know that someone didn't meanto drive over you, but you still need to deal with the fact that you are flat"

(Absolutely NO disrespectful pun intended)

barbe1958 · July 2010

hahahahahhahahahhaa

Love it!

ruthbru · July 2010

'Have courage for the great sorrow of life and patience for the small one; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.' Victor Hugo

BreastCancerRegistry · July 2010

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. ~ Vesta Kelly

Thanks for being there for support!

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

Keep them coming sisters, I love to read them!!

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." ~Bertrand Russell

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

Figure out who you are and then start living your life as that person. Carolyn Hax

ruthbru · July 2010

Laughing about the 'rational animal'. how true!

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John Fitzgerald Kennedy

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

EJ and KJs mom, Ruthie, BCR--good stuff! I think what words we resonate with say a great deal about who we are!

I have this on a T shirt I bought in San Francisco

Peace, Not War

Generosity, not greed

Empathy, not hate

Creativity, not destruction

Everybody, not just us

xo

docswife · July 2010

The one that came to mind was

Jesus take the wheel,

It has helped me through all this madness!

ruthbru · July 2010

A tee shirt I saw:

"No God, No Peace

Know God, Know Peace"

and a lighter saying on a tee at Disney World:

"Time's fun

when you're having sun!"

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

Welcome doc's wife!

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again." Ovid

Suzanne3131 · July 2010

Here's another from Mother Teresa...."Help one person at a time, and always start with the one nearest you"

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

Thanks Suzzane! Here is one posted as a byline of our own StephanieF. I loved it so much I had to copy it!

humility isnt putting yourself down, thats just putting yourself down. Humility is knowing you could learn something in the very next moment that would totally change the way you see the world

Suzanne3131 · July 2010

The selfsame well from which your laughter rises

Was oftentimes filled with your tears

And how else can it be?

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being

The more joy you can contain. Khalil Gibran

(okay sorry that is more of a poem than a quote...but it is an inspiration that has gotten me through some mighty dark days... )

Kodapants · July 2010

Kiss Proverbs 3.5, Do not lean on your own understanding, In all ways acknowledge him. And

Rejection is God's protection.

Koda

faithandfifty · July 2010

Oh thank goodness this thread popped to the top when I was here.

I lost where it was stashed!! Yippee. Have appreciated reading everyone's contributions.

A little tidbit that has brought me encouragement:

"When there is absolutely nothing that is funny........

Laugh on credit!"

I have lost the original source, so can't give credit where credit is due.

Still worth sharing. Apologies to the originator of the thought.

ruthbru · July 2010

Love the laughter reminder, and so true.

Another quote:

"No lake is so still but that it has its wave;

No circle so perfect but that it has its blur

I would change things for you if I could;

As I can't, you must take them as they are." Han Fei Tzu

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

ruthbru · July 2010

Kindness in words creates confidence,

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,

Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-Tse

barbe1958 · July 2010

Some people don't hear opportunity knocking, even when it's pounding on their foreheads.

ruthbru · July 2010

lovemyfamilysomuch · July 2010

HOPE

Hope is the thing with feathers

that perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard ;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the starngest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

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