INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

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  • lilli1020
    lilli1020 Member Posts: 114
    #82
    soccerfreaks said:

    ah
    And that is, ultimately, the hard part.

    Enjoy your posts, mariam.

    Take care,

    Joe

    When we lose one blessing,
    When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in it's place.

    Gayle
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #83
    Another one of Mom’s favorites

    If you don’t get moving you will live to regret it.

    She normally said this while holding a switch in her hand, Get the Picture.
  • RE
    RE Member Posts: 4,591 Member
    #84
    soccerfreaks said:

    :)
    Hmmm...Ours was 'grits, grits, the more you eats the more you..."

    Just joking!

    Take care,

    Joe

    :-}
    OH JOE!
  • Marcia527
    Marcia527 Member Posts: 2,729
    #85
    soccerfreaks said:

    :)
    Hmmm...Ours was 'grits, grits, the more you eats the more you..."

    Just joking!

    Take care,

    Joe

    Grit and bear it
    On the back of one of my t-shirts it says:

    No Grits, No Glory.
  • Noellesmom
    Noellesmom Member Posts: 1,859 Member
    #86
    Hondo said:

    Another one of Mom’s favorites

    If you don’t get moving you will live to regret it.

    She normally said this while holding a switch in her hand, Get the Picture.

    long lost brother (or cousin or something)
    My mother and your mother have GOT to be related.
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #87
    Noellesmom said:

    long lost brother (or cousin or something)
    My mother and your mother have GOT to be related.

    We laugh about it now but just the thoughts of remembering Mom and the things she would say and tell us are a wonderful experience. She has been gone for 26 years now but her memories still lives on.
  • Noellesmom
    Noellesmom Member Posts: 1,859 Member
    #88
    Hondo said:

    We laugh about it now but just the thoughts of remembering Mom and the things she would say and tell us are a wonderful experience. She has been gone for 26 years now but her memories still lives on.

    still have mine
    She's 84 and recovering from pneumonia. Just today she told the therapist she would have a heart attack if she raised her arms over her head. She admits she doesn't know who told her that but didn't think it was worth taking the chance. Besides, she just didn't feel like it right then.

    Moms - gotta love 'em.
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #89
    Noellesmom said:

    still have mine
    She's 84 and recovering from pneumonia. Just today she told the therapist she would have a heart attack if she raised her arms over her head. She admits she doesn't know who told her that but didn't think it was worth taking the chance. Besides, she just didn't feel like it right then.

    Moms - gotta love 'em.

    switches
    When I did something wrong Mom would send me to get two switches, first a long and second a short one.

    Why she would say, because I am going to wear the first one out on your butt and the second one on your back if you don’t start to listen when I speak.

    Sorry Mom but what did you say... she painted the picture very clear
  • mariam_11_09
    mariam_11_09 Member Posts: 691 Member
    #90
    soccerfreaks said:

    ah
    And that is, ultimately, the hard part.

    Enjoy your posts, mariam.

    Take care,

    Joe

    I am still pondering that

    I am still pondering that quote.

    Thanks. I enjoy your posts as well Joe.
  • amcer
    amcer Member Posts: 1
    #91
    Hondo said:

    switches
    When I did something wrong Mom would send me to get two switches, first a long and second a short one.

    Why she would say, because I am going to wear the first one out on your butt and the second one on your back if you don’t start to listen when I speak.

    Sorry Mom but what did you say... she painted the picture very clear

    I didn’t know anything
    I didn’t know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
    -Rue McClanahan
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #92
    Re:
    my having just arrived here, by your suggestion for this thread, you have become my officially favourite poster :)
    AussieMaddie
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #93
    PhillieG said:

    I've often thought of this.
    "If it weren't for cancer, I'd say I have the perfect life. If it weren't for cancer, would I even realize this?"
    ~me

    From Phillieg:
    "If it
    From Phillieg:
    "If it weren't for cancer, I'd say I have the perfect life. If it weren't for cancer, would I even realize this?"
    ~me
    ..............

    :)
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #94
    Balentine said:

    Here is one
    Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it is about dancing in the rain.
    Lorrie

    By Balentine:
    "Life is not
    By Balentine:
    "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it is about dancing in the rain.
    Lorrie"
    ................

    Wow!
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #95
    PhillieG said:

    JC (Joseph Campbell)
    ‎"God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being - those are categories of thought. It's as simple as that."

    From phillieg:
    (quoting
    From phillieg:

    (quoting Joseph Camphell)

    'God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being - those are categories of thought. It's as simple as that'
    ...........

    .. and of believing and non-believing also I must conclude :)
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #96
    PhillieG said:

    A good quote
    ‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
    ~ Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss, p. xvii

    Quoted by phillieg:
    "Make
    Quoted by phillieg:
    "Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
    ~ Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss, p. xvii
    .................

    Ok. Not sure who, but either you or Joseph Campbell is scaring me :)
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #97
    mariam_11_09 said:

    You find peace not by

    You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of you life but by realising who you are at the deepest level.

    Ekhart Tolle

    Quoted by mariam_11_09:
    You
    Quoted by mariam_11_09:
    You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of you life but by realising who you are at the deepest level.

    Ekhart Tolle
    ..................

    A teacher I like very much, though in this case, my personal preference would be:

    .. but by realizing and accepting where you are [your circumstances], you are enabled, not disabled, by them.
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #98
    sea60 said:

    An old favorite
    Gotta go with the one I always nod in agreement when I hear or read it...

    "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things that I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference"

    (Shortenend version from Reinhold Niebuhr)

    Quoted by sea60..God,
    Quoted by sea60
    ..
    God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things that I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference

    ............................

    [always used at AA and related meetings, and from Wikipedia, originally attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr]

    Damn! I'm not Christian nor do I belong to AA but this was the one that I was going to add.

    How dare you get in first!

    :)
  • strong1
    strong1 Member Posts: 5
    #99
    winsomebulldog said:

    Survivor
    Not sure this is truly a quote, but I found it on my first trip to my Oncologist. They have it printed on little strips of paper lying around all over the place for use as book markers or something similar. I picked it up and didn't even read it until later.

    "I have lived, laughed, loved and lost.
    I have cried, mourned and grieved,
    hoped, prayed, and healed.
    I have found strength and true beauty.
    I am a survivor."

    I like the message. I'm thinking it would make a nice t-shirt.

    I really like this and it
    I really like this and it would make a great shirt
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #100
    PhillieG said:

    Every religion is true
    Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
    ~ Joseph Campbell

    Mmm..
    Want to keep this. Campbell certainly is profound.
    It rings a chord for me somehow, I think also in relation to different forms of spirituality (not just religions - which I think of as different).
    Sometimes I am arrogant when I express my beliefs, but I don't usually realize that till I read something like this.
    Thanks Phil.
  • AussieMaddie
    AussieMaddie Member Posts: 345 Member
    #101
    donnare said:

    What lies behind us and what
    What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Spot on :)

    Spot on :)

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