What is your favorite quote?
Thanks everyone - those are some really great quotes! I have some together that I put together on magnets to give to my friends, and was running out of some good ideas. I never thought I was a crafty person, but I received a template from a friend and it's pretty easy, just takes time. This is what the template looks like: http://www.heritagemakers.com/projectBrowserStandAlone.cf...
If anyone wants to have a copy of this, please contact me and I'll let you know how I turned them into magnets.
"In Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
-- John F. Kennedy
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." --Mark Twain
I have two. They keep me positive even when the situation seems to be the most negative.
"Everything happens for a reason" (even if we don't see it at the time)
"If it's meant to be, it will be"
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter.
Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end.
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Suess
It's not much of a tail, but I'm kind of attached to it - Eeyore
"This too shall pass". It helps keep me sane when things get crazy but also makes me stop and truly appreciate all the great things that are happening in the here and now.
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." - Mark Twain
may the most you wish for be the least you get
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
Author: Unknown
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
"Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up."
Whatever it is that you choose to do, do it with all of your might.
Treat others as you wish to be treated!
I have lots but here are my two favorites:
1.Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin.
2. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Ghandi
If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!
"One cannot love well, think well, sleep well...if one has not dined well"
Something missing? Blame Ariel.
"This is called teamwork. I furnish the brains.
You furnish the muscles, the aches and the pains."
Dr. Seuss "I had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew".
Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint.
You can only fail if you stop trying.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The best things in life are not things.
Do your best and you will never have a regret.
When you see a chance take it.
lol My favorite Quote is one I actually come up with myself when I kept hearing from people who had never seen snow and wanted to know what it is like. I simply tell them
"Snow is like a man, looks good until you have to live with it"
"Love Me or Leave Me"
what comes around goes around
"He is no fool, to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"
-Jim Elliot
"In a true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and the wife is equal, their dependence mutual and their obligations, reciprocal."
-Lucretia Mott
The first wealth is health. Emerson
