|
Post by lesserknownpea on May 29, 2015 7:00:37 GMT
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. Any fool can do it. --james Taylor
|
|
|
Post by shanniebananie on May 29, 2015 12:49:38 GMT
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
|
|
joelise
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,649
Jul 1, 2014 6:33:14 GMT
|
Post by joelise on May 29, 2015 12:53:50 GMT
Hope for the best, expect the worst and take what comes.
|
|
|
Post by kristi521 on May 29, 2015 13:10:44 GMT
Say what you mean, and mean what you say - I learned this from my high school Algebra teacher. I am sure he learned it somewhere else. Sometimes I take it a bit too literally.
|
|
|
Post by jesslee on May 29, 2015 13:24:23 GMT
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
|
|
mallie
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,253
Jul 3, 2014 18:13:13 GMT
|
Post by mallie on May 29, 2015 13:43:18 GMT
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
When driving, assume the other drivers are total morons.
My kids have said that my motto for bad times is "Suck it up and move along."
|
|
|
Post by Susie_Homemaker on May 29, 2015 13:51:59 GMT
If I'm going to err I want to err on the side of kindness. I can do hard things. Let all you do be done with love. 1Cor 16:14 And on the lighter side.. as I tell my girls 'beauty is painful'. Meaning all the things we women do to look 'good' are usually pretty painful- high heels, plucking eyebrows, uncomfy clothes, etc. ETA: I forgot one of our family mottos "Man up. Ezekiel 2:12" It's not in the bible, it's just what we say.
|
|
milocat
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,570
Location: 55 degrees north in Alberta, Canada
Mar 18, 2015 4:10:31 GMT
|
Post by milocat on May 29, 2015 15:21:25 GMT
I've adopted one just this week....thank you Kacey Musgraves "Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy" I like Kacey Musgraves' Follow Your Arrow song: If you save yourself for marriage
You're a bore
If you don't save yourself for marriage
You're a whore-able person
If you won't have a drink
Then you're a prude
But they'll call you a drunk
As soon as you down the first one
If you can't lose the weight
Then you're just fat
But if you lose too much
Then you're on crack
You're damned if you do
And you're damned if you don't
So you might as well just do
Whatever you wantSums up life in a small town. someone will talk about you either way.
|
|
bethany102399
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,623
Oct 11, 2014 3:17:29 GMT
|
Post by bethany102399 on May 29, 2015 15:21:44 GMT
Another one on my wall:
Your life is an occasion, rise to it.
|
|
|
Post by scrapcat on May 29, 2015 15:29:35 GMT
I've had a few, but some that have helped me along the way:
"fake it until you make it" "what other people think of me is none of my business"
Mostly I just try to remember to be thankful every day, be positive, and give as much love as I can.
|
|
oldcrow
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,828
Location: Ontario,Canada
Jun 26, 2014 12:25:29 GMT
|
Post by oldcrow on May 29, 2015 15:30:54 GMT
from a plate my Grandma had hanging in her house (and now in my house) "My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy." I might take the dirty part too literally sometimes... house work bores me. My house is so happy some days it is hilarious.
|
|
|
Post by Heart on May 29, 2015 16:21:51 GMT
I have a new one : true power is service
older ones include: Are we ready for this? No. Let's do it anyway! and I don't want to be rich. I just want to be wonderful (Marilyn Monroe) also: So shines a good deed in a dreary world. (Roald Dahl)
|
|
BarbaraUK
Drama Llama
Surrounded by my yarn stash on the NE coast of England...............!! Refupea 1702
Posts: 5,961
Location: England UK
Jun 27, 2014 12:47:11 GMT
|
Post by BarbaraUK on May 29, 2015 16:24:25 GMT
There are two sides to every story
|
|
|
Post by ilikepink on May 29, 2015 18:13:28 GMT
Love this thread!
I have several - many have been mentioned already - Do what in your heart you feel is right; you'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't from Eleanor Roosevelt came from my mother. Lately, mine has been "Things work out they way they are supposed to work out"
Another I heard recently: It will all be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
|
|
|
Post by alittleintrepid on May 29, 2015 18:21:42 GMT
Build a bridge and get over it. I feel I say it everyday!! All I have to say to my kids is bridge and the get it. I really dislike that expression. The person I know that used it did so in a nasty way so it has a ""your feelings have no value" connotation for me. I'm sure that's not your intent but it struck me how differently we can perceive things.
|
|
|
Post by KiwiJo on May 29, 2015 19:25:55 GMT
"Don't compare your inside with someone else's outside."
Meaning that you know what is going on inside you and your life; but you only see what someone else chooses to present about themselves and their life.
|
|
|
Post by scrapqueen01 on May 29, 2015 22:30:39 GMT
The one I've always used with my daughter is "you take what you get and you don't pitch a fit". She rolls her eyes every time I say it.
|
|
ladipop
Junior Member
Posts: 74
Sept 18, 2014 4:09:42 GMT
|
Post by ladipop on May 29, 2015 23:19:02 GMT
They laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain. Both my boys have this framed in their room.
|
|
|
Post by KiwiJo on May 29, 2015 23:21:23 GMT
Oh, I have another that I just love; it's from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel:
"Everything will be all right in the end; so if it's not all right, then it's not yet the end."
|
|
|
Post by Chips on May 29, 2015 23:21:38 GMT
"I did what I knew and when I knew better I did better"
|
|