Welcome to my page of quotes, and book excerpts. I hope that something on this page will provide you with a little food for thought as you go about your day.
Question
Did you know that YOU choose your thoughts? Just because something enters into your head doesn’t mean you have to continue to think about it. YOU can actually CLOSE the DOOR on any thought you don’t like. For what you think about becomes BIG to you. We are not monkeys.
Progress
“I may not be where I need to be, but thank God I’m not where I used to be” - Joyce Meyer
Marriage Advice
“Pick your battles wisely and be at peace with the rest” – Danrev
Too Busy, Don’t Have Time For Anything?
“Don’t forget, you’re the one that makes your schedule.”
Overbooked and Overworked??
“Remember, just because someone throws you the ball, it doesn’t mean you have to catch it” – paraphrased from Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Mending A Relationship
“Sometimes the best way to say ‘I love you’ is to pronounce it ‘I’m Sorry’.” -Unknown
Character vs. Reputation
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
Hmmm…
“Once you can accept the Universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” – Albert Einstein
Definition of Peace
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” – Anonymous
Humans are kinda funny
“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. – George Carlin
The Truth About Mothers
“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.” – Erma Bombeck
Dealing With Other People
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
Ah, Kids!
“Our 13 year-old’s voice was changing, and to his chagrin, he was often mistaken for me on the phone. After what seemed like the 20th time, he marched up and said, ‘Mom, will you please quit answering the phone like a man!’” – Readers Digest ‘As kids see it”
Selecting Toys
“Today’s toys, especially the educational ones, are technologically superior to the toys I grew up with. One thing this usually means is that they don’t work without batteries. It also seems to mean they do more. Have you ever noticed, though, that when a toy does more, the kid playing with it does less? Wow, this violin plays music all by itself! Hey, this book reads the words for me! Gosh, this paper magically doesn’t let you colour outside the lines! I really wonder if this is good. It might be unthinkably bad. It might be turning our children into dimwits, dolts and dullards.” – Muffy Mead ‘Confessions of a Slacker Mom’
Nobody Can Make You Feel “Insert Emotion here“
“No matter what the circumstance between stimulus and response man [woman] has the freedom to choose.” – Viktor Frankl
