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May 13, 2009 3:36 am at 3:36 am #1084347anonymisssParticipant
aussie, you’re good at this. You should go into writing;)
~a~
May 13, 2009 5:47 am at 5:47 am #1084348aussieboyParticipantanonymisss: Thanks. Actually it had a whole thing before it which made me think of it (but I cant put what was before it on here. It wouldnt go through)
kapusta: Thanks 🙂
May 13, 2009 6:37 am at 6:37 am #1084349JaxMemberAnyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
— Oscar Wilde
— Mary Kay Ash
May 13, 2009 6:38 am at 6:38 am #1084350JaxMemberEach player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
— Voltaire
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
— David Seabury
May 13, 2009 6:38 am at 6:38 am #1084351JaxMemberGood judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
— Will Rogers
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
— Margaret B. Runbeck
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
— Leon J. Suenes
May 13, 2009 6:40 am at 6:40 am #1084352JaxMemberI’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
— Seneca
May 13, 2009 6:41 am at 6:41 am #1084353JaxMemberLife isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
— Brendan Francis
— Charles Dickens
May 13, 2009 7:46 am at 7:46 am #1084354kapustaParticipantgoes something like this…
Happiness can not be found in a city or town; its all in a state of mind.
May 13, 2009 2:41 pm at 2:41 pm #1084355anonymisssParticipantjax, wow!
kapusat, also boredom
~a~
May 13, 2009 7:53 pm at 7:53 pm #1084356aussieboyParticipantLife is like a carpet (I have no idea why so dont bother asking)
May 13, 2009 8:48 pm at 8:48 pm #1084357anonymisssParticipantaussie, cuz if you keep walking circles on it, it gets worn out;)
~a~
May 13, 2009 9:08 pm at 9:08 pm #1084358squeakParticipantOn the subject of car/pet, did you ever realize that although a dog riding in a car will stick his head out the window to get the wind in his face, he will bite your head off if you ever try to blow on his face, even gently.
That’s what life is like.
May 14, 2009 12:21 am at 12:21 am #1084359kapustaParticipantaussie, you could say maybe a magic carpet, takes you wherever it wants. 🙂
NEXT: aussieboy will explain why life can be compared to a pen! and after that, a tissue! dont miss it! 🙂
May 14, 2009 12:58 am at 12:58 am #1084360goody613Membera word is worth a selah (coin) but keeping quiet is worth two
-gemara in megillah
May 14, 2009 6:20 am at 6:20 am #1084363JaxMemberA bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
— Robert Frost
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
— Gandhi
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
— Winston Churchill-speaking of the guy around here!
May 14, 2009 6:23 am at 6:23 am #1084364kapustaParticipantAn eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
— Gandhi
excellent, like the one,
If you fight fire with fire, you only end up with ashes.
May 14, 2009 6:28 am at 6:28 am #1084365JaxMemberkapusta: your quote is great too!
May 14, 2009 6:30 am at 6:30 am #1084366JaxMemberBeauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
— Garrison Keillor
Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.
— Mark Twain
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
— Josh Billings
May 14, 2009 6:38 am at 6:38 am #1084367JaxMemberHe who laughs last probably didn’t get the joke.
— Author Unknown
I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore I am perfect.
— Author Unknown
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
— Margaret Thatcher
May 14, 2009 6:41 am at 6:41 am #1084368JaxMemberNever go to a doctor whose office plants have died.<—This one i really really like!
— Erma Bombeck
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
May 14, 2009 6:42 am at 6:42 am #1084369aussieboyParticipantkapusta: Actually its not a pen its like a pencil. Its what is inside (the lead) that counts not what is on the outside. OR Dont be led, lead! 😉
As for a tissue. If you cry about how horrible your life is all you will do it make it worse.
How did I do?
May 14, 2009 7:23 am at 7:23 am #1084370JaxMemberaussie: A+ for you buddy!
May 14, 2009 2:08 pm at 2:08 pm #1084371anonymisssParticipantaussie, you are goooood! Love this – Dont be led, lead!
~a~
May 14, 2009 2:39 pm at 2:39 pm #1084372BiffCrumblyParticipantThe early bird catches the worm;
The early worm gets eaten
May 14, 2009 2:53 pm at 2:53 pm #1084373aussieboyParticipantanonymisss: Thanks lol
May 14, 2009 3:07 pm at 3:07 pm #1084374anonymisssParticipantany more??
~a~
May 14, 2009 8:36 pm at 8:36 pm #1084376areivimzehlazehParticipantIf you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
— Margaret Thatcher
of course that was said by a woman….
May 14, 2009 8:41 pm at 8:41 pm #1084377anonymisssParticipantThose who judge don’t matter, those who matter don’t judge.
~a~
May 14, 2009 9:58 pm at 9:58 pm #1084378an open bookParticipantanonymisss: i always heard it as “those who matter don’t mind, & those who mind don’t matter”!
May 14, 2009 10:53 pm at 10:53 pm #1084379anonymisssParticipantYeh, i’ve heard that way too;)
~a~
May 15, 2009 7:14 am at 7:14 am #1084380JaxMemberYou don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
— Desmond Tutu
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
— Jim Rohn
May 15, 2009 7:14 am at 7:14 am #1084381JaxMemberThe man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him…
— Oscar Wilde
May 15, 2009 7:18 am at 7:18 am #1084382JaxMemberthis one’s for the books
> My husband says I feed him like he’s a god: every meal is a burnt offering.— Rhonda Hansome
May 15, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am #1084383YoshonMemberone may learn providing one’s mind is not made up and one can still be confused with the facts!
May 15, 2009 4:17 pm at 4:17 pm #1084384areivimzehlazehParticipantYoshon you aint old at all 🙂 Welcome to the CR- head to the New Members thread
May 17, 2009 11:21 pm at 11:21 pm #1084385kapustaParticipantNothing fixes a thing so intensely in memory as the wish to forget it.
– Michel de Montaigne
May 18, 2009 1:19 am at 1:19 am #1084386an open bookParticipantkapusta: so instead of consciously trying to forget it, try thinking about something else. that works a lot better!
May 18, 2009 1:22 am at 1:22 am #1084387kapustaParticipantAOB, I wasnt talking about anything in particular I was trying to forget, I just liked the quote.
May 18, 2009 1:25 am at 1:25 am #1084388an open bookParticipantkapusta: yeah i know 😉
May 18, 2009 1:38 am at 1:38 am #1084389anonymisssParticipantKapusta, I like that one. A lot.
A surgeon can do anything with a nose except keep it out of other people’s business.
~a~
May 18, 2009 1:43 am at 1:43 am #1084390kapustaParticipantare you trying to et me in a good mood?
I like that one. Did you ever see the cartoon of a surgeon in the operating room with a guy on the table all ready to perform surgery, and the surgeon says to the nurse, “Go to surgery.com and click on the ‘are you totally lost’ link.
May 18, 2009 1:59 am at 1:59 am #1084391anonymisssParticipantkapusta, i’m always trying to get anyone who’s not happy in a happy mood.
no, never saw but lol;)
~a~
May 18, 2009 2:38 am at 2:38 am #1084392kapustaParticipantme too, and even after I heard (I should say figured out) what I did, I was still trying to cheer people up, but its not working on me. I cant stop thinking about it. 🙁
btw, the real cartoon was better.
May 18, 2009 2:45 am at 2:45 am #1084393anonymisssParticipantkapusta, what’s up? I’m so concerned about you;(
~a~
May 18, 2009 2:50 am at 2:50 am #1084394kapustaParticipantanonymisss, thanx. to put it in laymens terms I’m watching someone I know (not a bad person. bad influences) go OTD. its awful.
May 18, 2009 2:54 am at 2:54 am #1084395anonymisssParticipantkapusta, ouch;( I know that. I really, really do. It kills. I’m so sad for you.
~a~
May 18, 2009 3:15 am at 3:15 am #1084396kapustaParticipantI would edit if I could, so,
EDIT: its more than one person (I’m afraid to think how many, and I dont know if all of them are strong enough) and there is nothing I could do about it.
May 18, 2009 3:18 am at 3:18 am #1084397kapustaParticipantanonymisss, thanx, I appreciate it. I feel like I’m watching a slow death (a spiritual one anyway.)
May 18, 2009 3:21 am at 3:21 am #1084398moish01Memberkapusta, don’t you think you’re taking this a little to the extreme? slow death?? gee.
May 18, 2009 3:26 am at 3:26 am #1084399moish01Member“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”
Bill Cosby
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