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Sunday, January 09, 2011

A Day For Quotes ~Balance

Yes, so I have no Balance! I must say I am sorry to my blogging friends because I have gotten sucked into Twitter in a big way. That is why I haven’t been here…as my Son would say “At All”. I must find my balance between my new Twitter family and my much loved blogging family. That is my goal for this week because honestly I miss you guys!!

So the quotes for this week are on Balance, may I be able to follow them!

Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river. ~ Native American Proverb

Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ~ Robert Fulghum

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balance. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor. ~ Carol Bartz

What I dream of is an art of balance. ~ Henri Matisse

Because I just know you miss them, here are the kids:

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

Sunday, January 02, 2011

A Day For Quotes ~Beginnings

Happy New Year everyone! The New Year is always a great time to think about what you want to to better, or more of. A time for new beginnings, so that is the theme of my quotes today. May you all have a wonderful 2011!

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ~ Louis L'Amour

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. ~ Edward Said

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. ~ Anne Sullivan

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive. ~ Zig Ziglar

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 Beynon Ray

Sunday, December 26, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Touch Another Life With Love

"Christmas happens everywhere every time someone reaches out to touch another life with love." ~ Carol Duerksen

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. ~ Francis P. Church

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love. ~ Christina Rossetti

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. ~Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. All, everything that I understand I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails ... And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ~1 Corinthians 13:4–8a, 13

Sunday, December 19, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~45 Lessons in Life

A friend of mine sent me this in an email this week. How he knew I needed to remember a few of these this week I will never know. The list was too good not to share it with you all.

Happy Sunday my friends, I hope your holiday shopping is done and you can enjoy your week!

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
When in doubt, just take the next small step
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
Pay off your credit cards every month.
You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
It's OK to let your children see you cry
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
Over prepare, then go with the flow.
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
The most important sex organ is the brain.
No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
Always choose life.
Forgive everyone everything.
What other people think of you is none of your business....
Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Believe in miracles.
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
Your children get only one childhood.
All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
Get outside every day.
Miracles are waiting everywhere.
If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
The best is yet to come.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Yield.
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift

Sunday, December 12, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Funny Christmas

I plan on posting some serious Christmas quotes as we get closer to the holiday, but thought you might enjoy some funny ones I found today. Hope you find one that makes you smile!

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first... your money or your feet.

You can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles three things... a rainy day, an ill loved one and tangled Christmas tree lights.

May you hear those three little words at Christmas: No Assembly Required!

Decorate your homes with lots of mistletoe... this won't really help the environment... But more kissing has got to be good for world peace.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

A Day For Quotes: Random

It was one of those weeks…. One where you love your family, and you could just scream at them at the same time! Thankfully (that is the word of the week is it not?) everything turned out just great. Funny enough it was, for me anyway, one of the best Thanksgivings I have ever had.

My brother’s wife extended an invitation to us to visit their house on Thanksgiving (Bless her beautiful heart). After convincing my Mother it would be fine if we had to share Thanksgiving with her family as well as ours, a wonderful time was had by all. Sadly, a bitter taste was left in my mouth about the whole “who gets who, and which family gets whom on Thanksgiving” thing. We ended up blending 2 families that know each other not at all, and had an absolutely blessed day.

So today, I give you a few random quotes from some of the things I have learned this week: Happy late Thanksgiving everyone!!

From Erin over at Slice o’ Heaven: (You really need to read her post!)

Thanksgiving…
1: the act of giving thanks
2: a prayer expressing gratitude
3: a day appointed for giving thanks for divine goodness: as the fourth Thursday in November observed as a legal holiday in the United States.

And from one of my favorite bloggers, (that I missed so much when she was gone!) Her Inspiration on her header just spoke to me. It was a reminder of the beautiful things in life! Thank you Cupcake!

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing alot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
- Audrey Hepburn

My absolute favorite picture from Thanksgiving. The one in black is my Angel. The other 3 are my brothers. Funny enough we are missing my brother’s oldest, and my youngest.

Quote of the week for me:

It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser

Sunday, November 21, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Thankful

Thanksgiving in 4 days?? Did this year past very fast or is that just me? Here are a few quotes to get your Thanksgiving week started. Have a great week my friends!

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner

Sunday, November 14, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Priorities

Sunday again? How fast the weeks are flying by. I have a few quotes on priorities for you this week, I hope I will remember some of them when I am working on my own. Have a great week!

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest Witcraft

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ~ Stephen Covey

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. ~ Confucius

Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did.” ~Zig Ziglar

Sunday, November 07, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Siblings

Happy Sunday everyone! Did you remember Day Light Savings time?? This week I have put together a few quotes on siblings, since I have a set in my house and well, I have one too!

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet ~Vietnamese Proverb

Sibling relationships...outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~ Erica E. Goode

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~ Isadora James

My brother and I Fall 1971

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ...Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. ~Anna Quindlan

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~ Pamela Dugdale

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were. ~ Betsy Cohen

Sunday, October 24, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. ~ Clarence E. Hodges

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~ Dr. Seuss

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. ~ Harriet Martineau

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday... And the other... is Tomorrow. ~ Robert Jones Burdette

Sunday, October 17, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Gratitude

After a trip to the grocery store yesterday my daughter was helping me put away the food. She turned to me and said “wow Mama, there is hardly any more room in the fridge for more now”. I told her we must be grateful that we have the means to put so much food in the fridge!

Today I give you Gratitude. Have a wonderful Sunday my friends!

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are. ~ Jim Carrey

Do not be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others. ~ Confucius

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all ~ William Faulkner

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~ William A. Ward

Thank you Lord for these smiling, healthy faces!

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard

Get down on your knees and thank God you're still on your feet. ~ Irish Proverb

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you have something you are grateful for today??? Post it in the comment section!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Self

Welcome to A Day For Quotes! Today I have a little Self Esteem for you. I hope everyone has a great week!

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

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody. ~ Louis L'Amour

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that. ~ Melissa Etheridge

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say. ~ Halle Berry

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it. ~ Marcus Allen

Sunday, October 03, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Hurry

Here we are at another Sunday!! My quote topic for today is Hurry. My life during the week seems to be made up of hurry here, hurry there, hurry hurry everywhere. I hope these make me remember to slow down and enjoy the moments more, especially with my kids as they are growing so fast….

The person in a hurry usually arrives late.~ Georgian Proverb

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished ~Lao Tzu

Don't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit so be sure to stop and smell the flowers. ~ Walter Hagen

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way ~Walter Hagen

Never let any mechanical device know that you are in a hurry. ~ Traditional Proverb

Sunday, September 26, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Patience

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Today I give you a few quotes on patience!

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. ~ A.A. Milne

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ~ William Penn

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. ~ Dorothy Bryant

Sunday, September 19, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Action

Welcome to A Day For Quotes everyone! I was a little MIA this week due to business and some extra deadlines at work, I hope to spend some time getting caught up with everyone today! I hope your weekend is going well!

Move and the way will open. ~ Zen Proverb

We are what we repeatedly do. ~ Aristotle

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. ~ Nancy Reagan

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. ~ John Calvin

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it. ~ Grace Slick

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