Favorite Quotations

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. " Leo Buscaglia

I'm in sales and I do that "touch". Depending on how I "read" my customer, at some point I either touch their upper arm or upper back. They never acknowledge it so I know it's not a physical thing.  I do it for emotional reasons and it works!

I am always on the lookout for good quotes!  I keep a list, and I use them frequently in my writing.

One of my favorites is from my flower shop days...some of the card messages were very touching, others funny, some inspiring.  My favorite will always be:  "We apologize for your extended elevator entrapment."  No, certainly not a famous quote, but it conjures up a pretty funny image!!

Some other (more famous) quotes that I love are:

'We acquire the strength we have overcome." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." ~John Vance Cheney

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." ~Yogi Berra

"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher." ~John Petit Senn

"I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can." ~Edward Everett Hale

"Damaged people are dangerous.  They know they can survive." ~Josephine Hart

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.  Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." ~Zig Ziglar

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." ~Oprah Winfrey

"Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" ~Mary Anne Radmacher                        

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." ~Author Unknown

"Do or do not.  There is not try." ~Yoda 

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal:  it is the courage to continue that counts." ~Winston Churchill

"What are you, the village idiot?"  -- my father, trying to get me to grow up.  It worked!

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" -- Yale economist Irving Fischer, one week before the 1929 stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubts"  -- Mark Twain

Since BC dx, I feel different and now know what Kermit meant when he said:

"IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN"...............

All good advice!

Simplicity.?

don't make things more complicated than they need to be? I'll join you for that cup of tea, but make mine iced, it's HOT here!

not, sounds great!

One of my favourites is:

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Wow, perfect quote!

She was indeed, and overcame a lot of problems and disappointments in her own life, so knew what she was talking about!

I also have this one framed in my house.

"It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long, uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

Love to you all, sticking  together and weathering the storms

Viv