Favorite Quotes from January 2014

Blog post #430 of 365

"If you're going to be weird, be confident about it." Emily

"The only resolution is to love yourself more." LKL

"Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eye can see." Mike L

"A goal without a plan is only a wish." Ramona

"If there must be trouble, let it be MY day that my child may have peace." Thomas P via Karen DLF

"This life is the time for men to prepare to meet God." ET

"You have to stand for what you believe in even if you are the only one standing." Brooke via Kerry

"Sometimes you just gotta dance to the song that's given to ya." Booth (Bones)

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." Random teacher Mary

"Adopt a no excuse attitude." Mary

"Quitting is not an option." Mary

"Kick the word can't out of your vocabulary." Mary (She has no arms.)

"Diagnosed with affluenza." (Psychologist testified that affluenza is When children who have a sense of entitlement, are irresponsible, and make excuses for poor behavior because parents have not set proper boundaries.) We are that family

"Optimist, one who understands that taking a step backward after taking a step forward isn't a disaster, it's the cha-cha." Beth

"There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything." Jimbo

"I have no idea what women want, but I do know what men want. We want to be really close to someone who will leave us alone." Todd

"Negative people will always find their walls." Jimbo

"Character is how you treat people who can do nothing for you." Aaron

"I accept who I am and yet I always strive to be better." Me

"Hatred has to stop. We hold things in and (eventually) we pop." Ashlynn

"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." Shell

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." Mitch J

"There are people who always have something to say but nothing to contribute." Richard C

"If you never take a chance you won't have one." Jon C THM

"Want much can get in the way of having happiness." Me

"Learn to appreciate the whole person and you're golden." Me

"Use words like awesome, kind, generous, humble, competent and so on when describing anyone. Not the outside stuff." TWM

"Don't spend time being angry at people. Forgive them. Life is entirely too short." Amanda RIP

"Be good to each other." Amanda RIP

"Listen with your heart, you will understand. Let it break upon you like a wave upon the sand." Ashlynn

"The more I travel the stranger this seems to be: the most compassionate people seem to be the most conservative." Amanda RIP

"Choice, chance and change. You have to make a choice to take a chance or life will never change." Stephanie

"To get something you don't yet have, you must do something you don't yet do." Kerry H

"It takes a lot of effort to be effortless." Cooper via Spencer

"If God brings you to it, He'll get you through it." Bean

"What's the point of having a cover if you can't judge by it?" Cooper via Spencer

"Mock someone as they struggle and they will never share their struggles again."

"To belittle is to be little." Holly P

"Change your words, change your world." TPOW

"It's a beautiful day, can you see it?" Me

"Bacteria, the only culture some people will ever know." Grammarly

"A little burned biscuit now and then won't hurt anyone." Karen DLF

"Imagination is more important than intelligence." Albert E.

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." Sir Ken R.

"Schools kill creativity." Tedx Logan Laplante

"Hatred corrodes the container that hold it. This is true of jealousy and anger as well so let it go." Me

"Constructive human interaction can never be established in an offensive manner." Kirby

"If you want to have a conversation avoid starting with an insult." Kirby

Conversely "If you want to have a pointless conversation, by all means begin with an insult or an angry tone." Me

"One of the blessing of old friendships is you can afford to be stupid with them." Karen DLF

"It is possible to be highly educated, socially powerful, deeply religious and still only be 10 years old emotionally." Kirby

"Let someone know you think they're fat and ugly (or fat or ugly) and that's all they'll ever hear you say. Say it to their face and it could be the last coherent thing you say for the rest of the day." Kirby

Lots of people never get past the fourth grade. You need merely to stroll about the internet to figure that out. It's like recess out there, but with no playground monitors." Kirby

"You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life has become better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant. It happened to me." Life As A House

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