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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2010

    courage doesn't always roar

    sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying

    I will try again tomorrow

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

    very good!

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2010

    Can't take credit, Ruth, I pilfered it from one of our sisters here. ..I really liked it

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

    It's a compliment if you like something enough to pass it along!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited November 2010

    It's an oldie....but a goodie.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

    "There are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something. " Thomas Edison

    "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." Albert Einstein

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  • Ndwmel
    Ndwmel Member Posts: 21
    edited November 2010

    I adopted this back in December 2009 when I  lost my job, remembered it when I had my car accident 8/13/10 and now by bc diagnosed 9/14/10. 

    "Things usually work out in the end." "And if they don't?" "Then you haven't come to the end yet." -- Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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  • phxsunshine
    phxsunshine Member Posts: 242
    edited November 2010

    I just found you today, so I'd like to add the one that has helped to keep me centered when things are seeming to get away from me and out of control:

    "Can any of you by worrying add a moment to your life-span?" ~ Jesus

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  • KellyMaryland
    KellyMaryland Member Posts: 350
    edited November 2010

    On the value of worrying:

    "I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."

    Mark Twain

    -Kelly

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2010

    Thank you so much for the great quotes about worry.  I love to read them and remind myself that worry does not help ( I don't always take my own advice!).

    Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
    --Unknown

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited November 2010

    Change is inevitable;

    Growth is optional.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

    Give your troubles to God, he's up all night anyway.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited November 2010

    Let go let God

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

    No God, No Peace.

    Know God, Know Peace.

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  • DucorpsToo
    DucorpsToo Member Posts: 37
    edited November 2010
    "Sometimes the hardest people to relate to...are the ones that you're related to"--author unknown
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

                     Dotage Thoughts  by Alice Ryerson 

    I read in the paper about an old lady who married an Arab at seventy three.

    She left all her children astonished behind her and galloped off chuckling and slapping her knee.

    Shall I marry an Arab?

    I saw in a movie and elderly person who bought an old wagon instead of a house.

    She drove to the Andes and set up a sawmill and ran it with her aboriginal spouse.

    Shall I buy a wagon?

    I went to a party and met an old woman who stood on her head when they passed the dessert.

    Descending again, she explained to the people that if you eat vegetables age doesn't hurt.

    Shall I stand on my head?

    I read in a book of an octogenarian living alone in the top of a tree.

    She spent most of her time in the lotus position and lived to a skittish one hundred and three.

    Shall I live in a tree?

    Not daring to put all my eggs in one basket but feeling it urgent to go forth and seek,

    I bought an old wagon and put a tree in it and stood on my head while I married a sheik.

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  • phxsunshine
    phxsunshine Member Posts: 242
    edited November 2010

    Here's another "gem"~

    Handle every stressful situation like a dog ~ 
    If you can't eat it or hump it, piss on it and walk away.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited November 2010

    Here is a nice 'book' quote from Emma Watson who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter movies. 

    "I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time."

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2010

    Happy thanksgiving to all my sisters!

    You don't need to be a hero to serve our Lord well.  You just have to approach Him with a loving, humble and trusting heart. 

    St Therese of the Child Jesus

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2010
    Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
    Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
    Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

    -- Allen Ginsberg, "Psalm III"
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited December 2010

    "Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." Christopher Robin to Pooh

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited December 2010

    love it ruth!

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited December 2010

    I love this one, too.  DD gave to DS last Christmas. 

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited December 2010

    so funny Layne, thanks!

    "What do you take me for, an idiot?" - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited December 2010

    Charles de Gaulle never did strike me as a particularly jolly sort of man!

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited December 2010

    Here is another of my mom's favorites.  I still love it

    Abu Ben Adam  Abu Ben Adam,may his tribe increase Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace And saw, within the moonlight of his room Making it rich, like a lily in bloom An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Abu Ben Adam bold And to the presence in his room he said ' What writest thou?' The vision raised its head And with a look of all sweet accord Answered: 'The names of those who love the Lord. 'And is mine one?' said Abu. 'Nay not so' Replied the Angel Abu spoke more low But cheerily still and said 'I pray thee then Write me as one that loves his fellow-men' The angel wrote and vanished. The next night it came again with awaking light And showed the names of whom love of God had blessed. And lo! Ben Adam's name led all the rest.

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited December 2010

    the weakest step toward the top of the hill, toward sunrise, toward hope, is stronger than the fiercest storm.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2010

    People trip over pebbles; not mountains.

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  • KellyMaryland
    KellyMaryland Member Posts: 350
    edited December 2010

    Not exactly a quote but one of my favorite poems called The Vintage Man

    The

    Difference

    Between a good artist

    And a great one

    Is:

    The novice

    Will often lay down his tool

    Or brush

    Then pick up an invisible club

    On the mind's table

    And helplessly smash the easels and

    Jade.

    Whereas the vintage man

    No longer hurts himself or anyone

    And keeps on

    Sculpting

    Light.

    by Hafiz (as translated by Ladinsky)

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  • KellyMaryland
    KellyMaryland Member Posts: 350
    edited December 2010

    Sorry, can't help myself but to post one more. (same source as above)

    Dropping Keys

    The small man

    Builds cages for everyone

    He

    Knows.

    While the sage,

    Who has to duck his head

    When the moon is low,

    Keeps dropping keys all night long

    For the

    Beautiful

    Rowdy

    Prisoners.

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