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  • #1084504
    kapusta
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    <repeat of last comment>

    *kapusta*

    #1084505
    Jax
    Member

    I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.

    — Louisa May Alcott

    I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

    — Martha Washington

    If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

    — Margaret Fuller

    If you have made mistakes…there is always another chance for you…you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.

    — Mary Pickford

    #1084506
    Jax
    Member

    we hit 900 posts! yay!

    #1084507
    Jax
    Member

    If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.

    — Glenn Clark

    If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

    — Jonathan Winters

    Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

    — James Anthony Froude

    It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

    — Mabel Newcomber

    It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

    — Seneca

    #1084508
    RBleSSingS
    Member

    Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

    If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.

    If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

    Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?

    In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher

    #1084509
    mepal
    Member

    kapusta, when I become a mod…

    Jax, keep it goin’!

    #1084510
    an open book
    Participant

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    #1084511
    Jax
    Member

    RBleSSingS: great ones there! & welcome to the CR! join the fun!

    mepal: will do!

    aob: nice from Mishlay!

    #1084512
    Jax
    Member

    As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

    — Isabelle Holland, The Long Search

    Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

    — Marilyn Mach Vos Savant

    Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

    — Carolyn Coats

    Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have.

    — Anon

    #1084513
    Jax
    Member

    Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and your reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

    — Belva Davis

    Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any.

    — Danielle Fotopoulis

    Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

    — Anon

    Everyone has the power to make someone happy – Some by simply entering a room, some by quietly leaving it.

    — Author Unknown

    #1084514
    Jax
    Member

    Experience is a hard teacher… it tests first and teaches after.

    — Anon

    Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

    — Oprah Winfrey

    Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.

    — Margaret Lee Runbeck

    I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage… What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom… the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.

    — Paula Giddings

    #1084515
    Jax
    Member

    I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

    — Diane Ackerman

    Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

    — Lauren Bacall

    It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

    — Jenny Craig

    Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

    — Karen Clark Kaiser

    #1084516
    Jax
    Member

    Limited expectations yield only limited results.

    — Susan Laurson Willig

    Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

    — Betty Smith

    Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

    — Marianne Williamson

    So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

    — Marian Wright Edelman

    #1084517
    Jax
    Member

    The price of giving up is always wondering what could have been.

    — Anon

    To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

    — Eva Young

    You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals and you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.

    — Rosalynn Carter

    You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now.

    — Joan Baez

    #1084518
    moish01
    Member

    There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

    #1084531
    Jax
    Member

    moish: it’s really nice to see ya around here!

    Please keep all personal conversation in the General Shmooze thread – General Shmooze-42

    #1084534
    Jax
    Member

    A soul that did not suffer would never fully know itself.

    — David L. Weatherford

    Even when standing in the deepest, darkest valley, one can still see the stars.

    — David L. Weatherford

    Forgiveness is like exercise. It can be so hard to bring ourselves to do it — but when we do, we often feel rejuvenated, enjoy a sense of self-satisfaction, and ultimately improve our general well-being.

    — David L. Weatherford

    If you don’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’ve got nothing.

    — David L. Weatherford

    #1084535
    Jax
    Member

    it was while sinking in the sea of suffering that I learned, hope floats.

    — David L. Weatherford

    I’m not so much afraid of death as I am of not having lived fully.

    — David L. Weatherford

    No day is wasted in which I touch another person’s life in any positive, meaningful way. And so it is that I enrich my days by giving something of myself whether through a warm smile, a kind word, a sympathetic ear, a gentle embrace, or a helping hand.

    — David L. Weatherford

    #1084536
    Jax
    Member

    No one else can make you happy — you must do that for yourself. But others can make you unhappy. Never give anyone that power over you.

    — David L. Weatherford

    People need to quit worrying about the aging process, and concentrate on the living process.

    — David L. Weatherford

    The light of humanity never shines brighter than those moments in which someone reaches into the darkness of another’s suffering to offer comfort.

    — David L. Weatherford

    Those who can laugh at their own follies are seldom without an amused audience.

    — David L. Weatherford

    #1084537
    Jax
    Member

    Those who stop to whine every time they step on a pebble will never make it to the top of the mountain.

    — David L. Weatherford

    Through the haze of hardship and misfortune we often have our clearest vision of just how much we really have.

    — David L. Weatherford

    We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.

    We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.

    By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sorrow.

    — David L. Weatherford

    We never stand taller than when we stoop down to help someone who has fallen.

    — David L. Weatherford

    #1084538
    Jax
    Member

    Inspirational

    If you have made mistakes…there is always another chance for you…you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.

    — Mary Pickford

    Meaningful

    At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

    — Barbara Bush

    Family

    Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.

    — Author Unknown

    #1084539
    Jax
    Member

    Summer

    A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

    — James Dent

    Farewell

    Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.

    — Richard Bach

    #1084540
    Jax
    Member

    Letting Go

    — Author Unknown

    I Miss You

    Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

    — Lamartine

    Encouraging

    Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

    — Mary Manin Morrissey

    #1084541
    Jax
    Member

    Winnie the Pooh

    — Winnie the Pooh

    Dr. Seuss

    Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

    — Dr. Seuss

    #1084542
    Jax
    Member

    Teen

    Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig. Sooner or later you figure out that he/she is enjoying it.

    — Author Unknown

    Scrapbooking

    As we reflect on days gone by, we learn that it’s the shared moments and simple pleasures that matter most of all.

    — Flavia

    Grandmother

    Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

    — Pam Brown

    Mod42: we’re back on topic now! 😉

    #1084543
    kapusta
    Participant

    Jax, all great!

    *kapusta*

    #1084545
    Jax
    Member

    tonight’s quotes are in the Graduation category for the CR Queen, Kapusta! `.

    All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

    — Brian Tracy

    All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.

    — Walt Disney

    An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

    — Benjamin Franklin

    At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

    — Paul Freund

    #1084546
    Jax
    Member

    Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

    — Wendy Wasserstein

    Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.

    — Arie Pencovici

    Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

    — Henry David Thoreau

    Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

    — Wayne Dyer

    Hitch your wagon to a star.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

    #1084547
    Jax
    Member

    I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

    — Author Unknown

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

    — Aristotle

    If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

    — William Arthur Ward

    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

    — e.e. cummings

    #1084548
    Jax
    Member

    My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

    — Jim Fox

    Put your future in good hands – your own.

    — Author Unknown

    The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

    — Edward Koch

    The future lies before you

    Like a field of driven snow,

    Be careful how you tread it,

    For every step will show.

    — Author Unknown

    #1084549
    Jax
    Member

    There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.

    — Orrin Hatch

    Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

    — Art Linkletter

    To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

    — Anatole France

    We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

    — Author Unknown

    When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.

    — Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates

    Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

    — Confucius

    #1084550
    Jax
    Member

    Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

    — Anthony J. D’Angelo

    You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

    — John Updike

    Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.

    — Author Unknown

    kapusta: i hope you enjoyed these!

    mods: thank you!

    #1084551
    kapusta
    Participant

    Jax, for me? little old me? why thank you, <bow> I loved them! 🙂

    *kapusta*

    #1084552
    feivel
    Participant

    “if you take a can of Canfield’s ‘diet chocolate fudge’ soda and add in a little black cherry soda, and chill well, it is REALLY delicious.”

    –feivel, June 11, 2009, YWN Coffee Room

    #1084553
    mepal
    Member

    Thats a recipe. Not a quote 😉

    #1084554
    feivel
    Participant

    thats a comment. not a quote 🙂

    #1084555
    mepal
    Member

    ha.

    that’s why I didn’t put it in quotes 🙂

    #1084556
    Jax
    Member

    kapusta: your very welcome! glad ya liked them! 😉

    #1084557
    Jax
    Member

    Concentration is the secret of strength.

    — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, and should have.

    — Louis E. Boone

    I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

    — George Patton

    I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

    — Myrlie Evers

    #1084558
    Jax
    Member

    If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

    — Jennifer James

    If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

    — David Viscott

    I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

    — Louisa May Alcott

    Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

    — Corita Kent

    #1084559
    Jax
    Member

    Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

    — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

    — Norman R. Augustine

    Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

    — Thomas Merton

    One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out ofstumbling blocks.

    #1084560
    Jax
    Member

    Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

    — Barbara De Angelis

    Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

    — Confucius

    Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.

    — Marel Morin

    The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

    — Oliver Wendell Holmes

    #1084561
    Jax
    Member

    The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

    — Michelangelo

    The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

    — Charles DuBois

    The measure of people’s real character is what they would do if they knew they would never be found out.

    — J.C. Macauley

    The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

    — e.e. cummings

    #1084562
    Jax
    Member

    The significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

    — Albert Einstein

    The real voyage of discovery consists not only in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

    — Marcel Proust

    The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

    — Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

    There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.

    — David Johnson

    #1084563
    mepal
    Member

    Jax, all great!

    #1084564
    Jax
    Member

    mepal: that you, i will keep em coming then! 🙂

    #1084565
    Jax
    Member

    A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

    — Ogden Nash

    A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

    — John Bowring

    A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

    — Helen Keller

    A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

    — George Moore

    #1084566
    Jax
    Member

    At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

    — Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

    Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.

    — Milton R. Saperstein

    Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

    — Jane Howard

    #1084567
    Jax
    Member

    The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

    — Nelson Boswell

    The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

    — Harold B. Lee

    Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

    — Jane Fonda

    A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

    — Emo Philips

    #1084568
    Jax
    Member

    Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn’t fall there.

    — Anonymous

    If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.

    — Mark Houlahan

    Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

    — William Feather

    There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.

    — Laura Preble

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