hi could everyone share their favoite quote.
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been." - one of my former students
"The definition of delegate is to accept the fact that the person will not do the job as well as you think you could have done it." - Fr. Jim Bacik
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'”
The Talmud
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
"Feed your Faith and your fears will starve to death".
(no clue who said/wrote it) but I just love it!
And "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God".
If someone wrongs you, buy each of his children a drum.
-From the wisdom of Brightspot the Cat
"Be still and know that I am God." which means to me that God is in me. I am good.
Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
To the world you may be O. person, but to O. person, you may be the world.
I love these little people and it is no slight thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. (C. Dickens)
We need to give our children roots and wings.
Dont tell me the skies the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Every Saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
I have a lot, but these are some short ones that have impacted my life in some way.
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it." - Mark Twain
"If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead." - Neal A. Maxwell
"Whatever you are, be a good one." -- Abe Lincoln
"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Theresa
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours....
I have a few
"You do your thing and I do mine. I am not in this world to live up with your expectations, nor are you in this world to live up with mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we meet each other that's beautiful" --F Perls
"When someone stabs you in the back, be reminded that you are walking ahead of him." ---Arabic Proverb
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate." -------Elbert Hubbard
A great oak was once a little nut that held it's ground.
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ~ Robert McCloskey
“If you can't convince them, confuse them.” ~ Harry S. Truman
"Do or do not....there is no try"-Yoda
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost
I have so many, I couldn't pick one! Great question, and fun to read all the responses!
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happenend." -Dr. Seuss
Think off-center.
...George Carlin
Where's your will to be weird? -Jim Morrison
One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
-George Carlin
“"I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like "shut up, shut up, shut up...blah blah blah blah blaaaaah."” Ellen Degeneres
“A person's a person, no matter how small.” -Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” -Dr. Seuss
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
— Stephen King
“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason” -Jerry Seinfeld
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” -Jerry Seinfeld
"don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened."
I'll think about that tomorrow-Scarlette O'Hara
It is never too late to have a happy childhood. Saw it on a bumper sticker and really loved it. I had a happy childhood, but it says to me that you can always let your inner child play.
be the change you wish to see in the world - ghandi
nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent - eleanor roosevelt
this too shall pass - everyones mom
happiness isnt having what you want, its wanting what you have - i dont know
Money can't buy happiness, but it does give you a more pleasant form of misery.
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
"Before you echo Amen in your home or place of worship, remember, a child is listening"
I am awash in a sea of inspirational & "leadership" quotes, but this silliness is still my favorite:
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
"If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?" -Neale Donald Walsch
Be the change you wish to see in the world. -Ghandi (although I have also seen Anonymous)
Life isn't about how many breaths that you take, It's about the moments that take your breath away.
"It's easier to build a child than to repair an adult."
Penny for your thoughts.
Go. Be. Do.
Pay attention to what I mean, not what I say.
The rules of the world are only the collective best guess. Don't be afraid to look, wonder and question.
they may not be my favorites, but...
love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.
and: careful of the tangled webs you weave when first you practice to deceive, (something like that)
friedrich nietzche (sp) has some pretty interesting ones...
Because this is a site for Mama's:
Mother's are not meant to lean on, but to make leaning unnecessary." unknown.....
However, my favorite song from Playing for Change is "Lean on Me" ...I must be ambivalent.
In order to have a friend, you must show yourself friendly.
When a student is ready a teacher will appear.
These are my favorite quotes and I'm not sure by who.
"...It is better to live your life imperfectly...than to live someone elses life with perfection..." The Bhagvada Gita
Live, Laugh, Love. Life!
If the world were a logical place, wouldn't men ride side saddle?
Right now, my favorite is:
"Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do." -Bill Maher
Love him!
You get what you give.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
this too shall pass
Fair is a weather condition
Before I had my tubal when I wasnt on birth control my mom always use to say to me "It only takes a drop ya know!"
Don't know if it's my favorite but I just read it and it's funny:
straight jacket, the original snuggie!
For beutiful eyes,look for the good in others, For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audery Hepburn
life is the journey between who you were, and who you are meant to be. the choices you make and the chances you take.
Proverbs something: As a man thinketh, so is he.
"In truth, a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit." ~Marge Kennedy
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"It's okay to not be okay." - Robin Benwa
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Ben Franklin
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Sometimes in trying to give our kids what WE may not have had...we miss the real blessing of giving them what we DID have!
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings and once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never be lex about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." -eat.pray.love
This might not be my favorite, but it's the first one that came to mind.
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
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This might not be my favorite, but it's the first one that came to mind.
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
Guilt is not from God
My top three:
1.) "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final say in reality." Martin Luther King Jr.
2.) "I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
3.) "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." C .S. Lewis
children become who you are ...so be who you want them to be.
bren.S from rockford
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children become who you are ...so be who you want them to be.
bren.S from rockford
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children become who you are ...so be who you want them to be.
bren.S from rockford
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
-Dr. Seuss
-Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-it's when things go wrong that you must not quit.
-It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it's because we do not dare that things are difficult
What a great question - very fun reading everyone's responses.
I actually said this to my notoriously unorganized boss once: 'Your poor planning does not create an emergency for me today.' He didn't like it that much but my coworkers did. :)
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is only one kind of human, and it is the kind that aches when it feels lonely." -Emilie Frost
"Death leaves a heartache No one can heal; Love leaves a memory No one can steal..."
This one is on my email signature:
"Teenagers for sale; takeover payments..."
Life is somethings not wrapped with a bow, but it certainly is a gift.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
There are somethings you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Difficult people help us grow - be sure to thank them.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the Courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The fool is not the one who makes mistakes...The fool is the one who never makes mistakes! - Devin Peltier-Robson
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. -Winston Churchill
What a great question!
Got this from a parenting book I just finished reading.
"We don't water a flower if it blooms; we water it so that it will bloom"
And, this from one of my son's Hero Factory movies:
"It's amazing what you can learn when you're not always speaking."
It's better to keep your mouth closed and be presumed a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.-Mark Twain
"Love is something you can't describe, like the look of a lily, the smell of the rain or the feeling of forever."
"Life is not about the number of breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away."
'He's not safe...but He is good...'
From The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
I have always kind of liked: "Wit is educated insolence." and "Jesters do oft prove prophets." Aristotle and Shakespeare, respectively.
