Please SHARE your Favorite Quotes! What Helped YOU

'Women are like tea bags, you don't know how strong they are until they are thrown into hot water' Eleanor Rosevelt

Sheila

My son was sent home with this quote on the first day of school. I found it to be so true in my life, so I thought I'd share with you. Love, Jen

Attitude By Charles Swindoll



“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our Attitudes.” St George, February 1989

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert Schuller

I'M NOT DEAD YET.

Monty Phython

Life is good.

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Valerie

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Thanks to Femara, I can't remember which character in "Apocolypse Now" said this.

I just finished reading an awesome article on Elizabeth Edwards in Oprah magazine! It ended with a quote from her commencement speech this year at Meredith College where she spoke of a tapestry as metaphor for one's life and how it's important to weave many strong threads. Here's how she ended the speech:

"A tapestry well woven will mean for all eternity that you mattered."

I'm going to hold onto that thought!

~Marin

"One more test and I think you'll stick to the fridge!"

A Good Friend

“It’s the character that’s the strongest that God gives the most challenges to.
Take it as a compliment.”

~Carroll O’Conner

"Trust your Journey"

"I want people to know my life philosophy, to remember to play after every storm."
— Mattie Stepanek

"Play after every Storm" was for along time, my signature here. God Bless Mattie and the young wisdom he has shared.
He is no longer with us, but he surely lives on.

Deb, I love that one.

A quote I really like and I like reminding the ladies I work with when they complain about their hair:
A bad hair day is better than a no hair day. I saw it here on the boards but I do not remember who posted.

I also like you wont get more than you can handle, not sure I believe it but I hope it is true.

Newter

This one was written by a co-worker on a get well card that was given to me - it's hokey but I still kinda like it:

"You can't go over under it, you can't go over it, you hafta go through it.
You're a strong individual - YOU CAN DO IT!"

One I found myself repeating during particularly difficult and anxious times was:

"Breathe in.....breathe out!"

And the speech from Castaway where Tom Hanks is talking to his friend after he is rescued and he comes home to find his fiance had married someone else and how he was going to face the rest of his life. I don't remember his exact words but they were something like this:

When I was on the island, I grew so despondent, I tried to commit suicide but couldn't do it. Day after day passed and I realized that all I could do was to keep breathing. So I did - for 4 years. Then one day the tide brought me a sail (He'd fashioned a sail from a part of the plane wreckage which enabled him to get off the island and get rescued). So now, all I can do is keep breathing because who knows what the tide will bring in?

I love that!
Mandy

Life is too short to dance with ugly men!

"Each day the first day:
Each day a life."

~Dag Hammarskjold

Feel the fear....and do it anyway, Courage.