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  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited July 2004
    "If the only prayer you ever say in your life is thank you, it will be enough."

    — Meister Eckart
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Thoreau)

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    To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. (e.e.cummings)


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    This quote from Reinhold Niebuhr often keeps me rooted to reality and sanity:

    God grant me the serenity to
    accept the things I cannot change,
    courage to change the things I can
    and Wisdom to know the difference.

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    Patti
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    "What the heart has once owned and had,
    It shall never lose......" Unknown Author

    Wishing you all peace and tranquility today..xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    Before you give somebody a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what you have left.
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    Let us be thankful for the fools.But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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    While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

    MJB(Marilyn)
  • Fighter_Lu
    Fighter_Lu Member Posts: 78
    edited July 2004
    Love never gives up
    never loses faith
    Is always hopeful
    and endures
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
    Charles Wadsworth

    How true!! xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a HEN.
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    Love is like wildflowers. It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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    You have two choices for dinner.
    TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.
    MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.
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    Losing everything isn't really that terrible. When you have nothing you are free.
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    A well-balanced life is one which fails to give you what you ask for about as often as it fails to give you what you deserve.

    MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    Good one Patti.

    Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire...conscience. George Washington
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    A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected and outlast the unbearable...Billy Graham

    MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    "Don't ever save anything for a special occasion.
    Every day you're alive is a special occasion"
    -Unknown author


    xoxoxo,Patti
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    "Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
    -John Lennon


    xoxo,Patti
  • Fighter_Lu
    Fighter_Lu Member Posts: 78
    edited July 2004

    Never look back with regret because life is never perfect,but it offers us the perfect moment to start anew which is right now.Lord, help me to live with enthusiasm and recognize that each day is an adventure.

  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    No failure is ever final...nor is any success.
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    When you invite trouble , it's usually quick to accept.
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    Promise only what you can deliver, Then deliver more than you promise.
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    Have a great evening. MJB(Marilyn)
  • Fighter_Lu
    Fighter_Lu Member Posts: 78
    edited July 2004

    You will be happier if you spend less time insisting that everything be your way. Lord, help me remain objective and open to new ideas when they are presented, but at the same time give me the courage to not compromise my beliefs and values.

  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    "Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory"..........Albert Schweitzer
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    A spade and a kind word should never be allowed to rust.
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    Middle age is when you have two choices and you choose the one that gets you home earlier.
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    Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

    MJB(Marilyn)
  • Fighter_Lu
    Fighter_Lu Member Posts: 78
    edited July 2004

    Forgiveness is a wonderful way to lift yourself up and it is the best way to encourage yourself and others to do better. Lord, grant me greater understanding and wisdom so that I can move past my problems into a new day.

  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.
    ~ Marie Beyon Ray ~
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited July 2004
    Inspiration is a fragile thing... just a breeze, touching the green foliage of a city park, just a whisper from the soul of a friend. Just a line of verse clipped from some book. Inspiration... who can say where it is born, and why it leaves us? Who can tell the reasons for its being or not being? Only this... I can think. Inspiration comes from the Heart of Heaven to give the lift of wings, and the breath of divine music to those of us who are earthbound. Margaret Sangster
    ####################################################xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
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    You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources;you are a channel attached to unlimited divine resources.
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    The future is the time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now.

    Have a great day ladies. MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    Always remember to forget the troubles that passed away but never forget to remember the blessing that comes each day.
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    If your mind goes blank don't forget to turn off the sound.
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    Ever notice how people who tell you to calm down....are the ones who got you mad in the first place.
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    MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    Nothing worthwhile is ever learned in ten easy lessons.
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    Luck favors the backbone , not the wishbone.
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    Don't brag. It's not the whistle that moves the train.
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    No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back .

    MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited July 2004
    If there were no one to watch them drive by how many people would buy a MERCEDES?
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    An honest man is someone you can play checkers with over the telephone.
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    Grow old along with me !
    The best is yet to be,
    The last of life for which the first was made.
    Author Robert Browing
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    MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited August 2004
    Criticism never built a house, wrote a play, composed a song, painted a picture or improved a marriage.
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    There is always room for improvement.It's the biggest room in the house.
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    No one is guaranteed happiness. Life just gives each person time and space. It's up to us to fill it with joy.
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    MJB(Marilyn)
  • Fighter_Lu
    Fighter_Lu Member Posts: 78
    edited August 2004

    Place yourself in God's hands first thing in the morning so that your entire day will be in His care.

  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited August 2004
    The only thing you carry with you on

    your travels, is your heart. Fill your heart

    with good things and good things will

    follow you for the rest of your life
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited August 2004
    Dare to be brave, dare to stand tall;give life the best, get up when you fall.
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    "Age is simply a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind , it doesn't matter."
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    Seek to find the best in the worst, to discover the great in the small, to see beauty in the plain and to detect the elegant in the simple.
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    MJB(Marilyn)
  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited August 2004
    The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited August 2004
    It was a delightful visit....perfect , in being much too short....Jane Austen
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    A good friend remarked after a recent hospital stay that he found it very educational . He learned that he wasn't covered by his insurance ..or his hospital gown.
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    MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited August 2004
    For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
    Mary Kay Ash
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    xoxo,
    Patti
  • Fighter_Lu
    Fighter_Lu Member Posts: 78
    edited August 2004
    When things go wrong, it is far more productive
    to see if you can learn something from it rather
    than just getting upset.
    Lord, help me to remain peaceful and patient
    enough in my trying moments st that in some way
    I can grow from them.

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