O MY GOSH!

Today’s Whimsical Quote

What if you wake up tomorrow and think this?

“And you’re a senior, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years (because your body wasn’t perfect); and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people — pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and starting off into space like when you were a kid?  It’s going to break your heart.  Don’t let this happen!”

–Anne Lamott

This quote makes me giddy…you too?

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FEBRUARY’S AFRICAN VIOLETS

Happy Birthday to all of you this month with an African Violet

Your velvety deep purpled petals exemplify your character with loyalty, faithfulness and watchfulness.

“I do love violets; they tell the history of woman’s Love.”

–Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.”

–Robert Burns

“Look how the blue-eyed violets glance Love to one another.”

–Thomas Buchanan Read

“The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.”

–Fredrika Bremer

African violets remind me of my grandmother’s gentle humbleness; she knew how to flourish them.

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NEVER FORGET…

You are one of a kind

“Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.

“And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world.  In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about.  So be that one person.”

–Richard Buckminster Fuller

LOVE OF SOLITUDE

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“Words stand between silence of things and the silence of our own being.  Truth rises from the silence of being and the truth of words bears us down into the silence of God.”

–Thomas Merton

“Faith is heaven in darkness.”

Teresa of Avila

4TH OF JULY QUOTES

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No doubt about it, this 4th of July represents “Shock and Awe.”

May these unfamiliar quotes bring hope and peace to your heart today.

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

–Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his (tyrant) government.”

–Edward Abbey

“Life without Liberty is like a body without Spirit.”

–Kahlil Gibran

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

–William Faulkner

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

–Abraham Lincoln

“Whoever keeps my Word will never see death.”

–Christ, Son of the Living God

Happy Fourth of July to You!

BEING SUCCESSFUL…

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Being successful is not about what you do, but about who you are to others.

“We are all here for some special reason.  Stop being a prisoner of your past.  Become the architect of your future.”

–Robin Sharma

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

–G.K. Chesterton

“Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”

–Zig Ziglar

Success is all encompassing.  Make this a successful day!

–yours truly