What's your favorite quote? I'm running a contest on my newsletter (opt in to get yours) about quotes. Here's my fave quote today:
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou
What's your quote of the day?
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One of my favorite quotes is "Pay no attention to boundaries". Though sometimes, with my children, this quote comes back to haunt me!
All because two people fell in love... I know it's cheesy but, after 7 years of infertility... our two kids are the very best gift of our life together.
Hi Allison! Here is one of my favorite quotes . . . .
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-by Dr. Seuss
Hi Allison - I love all your creative items. I own several and have gifted several as well. Here's my favorite quote [clearly I'm a grandma and loving it!]:
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." (Alex Haley)
I want to be a stardust sprinkler!
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
--Harold Thurman Whitman
btw- i LOVE LOVE LOVE my new necklace! i have worn it EVER since i opened the package!
"This Too shall pass" is my favorite. The only thing is that they forgot to mention that it feels like kidney stones as it does pass...
I have so many favorite quotes...
"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." -Margaret Drabble
is a favorite....it keeps me inspired to make the most of each day!
Hi Allison,
This is going to be fun! I have a couple of your fun necklaces and love my LadyBird, so for a chance to get some more I'm going to brush off some of my (hopefully) great quotes!
From the wonderful Erma Bombeck:
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
At the age of 51, I'm still lucky enough to be getting advice (good and bad) from my own Mom and of course giving out great advice to my own kids!
Happy Saturday,
Rosanne
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." ~Willa Cather
"Inside every old person is a younger person wondering what happened."
~unknown
"Children take up the same part of my head as poetry does."
~Libby Houston
"I'm worried that my hair is going to get bigger than I am and take me places I don't want to go."
~Jennifer Heath
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age."
~Lucille Ball
"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
~Katharine Hepburn
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
~Groucho Marx
"Don't worry. Be happy."
~Bobby McFerrin
My mom taught me this one:
"To love and be loved is the greatest joy on earth." So true!
My favorite is "Don't sweat the small stuff." My dad used to say it a lot before he passed away 8 years ago. Now it is my mantra. Losing him to cancer has made me realize that a lot of things in life that get me upset don't really matter in the grand scheme of life. Although it is hard, I try to just let them go and enjoy life to the fullest.
Allison - your stuff rocks!!
My favorite quotes...
"Here is my secret. It is simple: It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. The essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I used to be Snow White. Then I drifted." - Mae West
"One thing is sure: that time will tell - if you were wrong, the brightest ring around the moon will darken when I die." - John Wetton
"For oh! so wildly do I love him, that heaven itself would be dim and joyless without him!" - unknown
Love, love love your stuff!!
My fav quote right now...
Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. -Author Unknown
BE NOT SO BUSY MAKING A LIVING.... THAT YOU FORGET TO MAKE A LIFE.
Here's another great one: "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." (Arnold Glasgow)
Here's a couple more that I like too:
"It is not our abilities that show who we really are -- it is our choices." (from a Harry Potter movie)
"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." (George Horace Lorimer)
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” (Robert Fulghum)
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” (Thornton Wilder)
And that's probably enough from me!
"I thank God for this most amazing day;
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite,
which is yes."
{ee cummings}
when you have laboriously accomplishied your daily task, go to sleep in peace. god is awake. emile zola
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
— Palmer Sondreal
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
— Swedish Proverb
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
c.s. lewis.....
"Nothing like a nighttime
stroll to give you ideas," says Mad-Eye Moody in J.K. Rowling's
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
"There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly
clear." (Buffalo Springfield)
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher
Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Thoreau
"Do Justice, Love Kindness, and Walk Humbly with God"
Micah 6:8
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Australian Aboriginal saying
Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Love more, and all good things will be yours
Albert Einstein
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
— Kahlil Gibran
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.- Danny Kaye
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
— Helen Keller
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
Happiness is a place between too little and too much.
— Finnish proverb
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen, "Emma
life is what you make it
grandma moses
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"We are shaped
and fashioned
by what we love."
-Goethe
may your home always be too small to hold all your friends....irish blessing
life is a highway
i want to ride it
all night long.....
rascall flats (drew loves them)
Yoda from Starwars "There is no try. There is do or not do."
you must be the change you wish to see in the world -ghandi
"Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself." ~St.Francis de Sales
yellow is yummy, green is groovy, and no one really loves purple. poor purple. e.beck.artist (just seeing if you read this far)
I never met a color I didn't like. (Dale Chihuly)
Just saw this one the other day... I love it!!! "Naptime, the new HAPPY HOUR!!!"
i have always liked "be the change you wish to see in the world". kind of puts you in this "i can do/be anything" frame of mind. also, it keeps me from dwelling on what's wrong with the world and approaching things with a more positive attitude.
karen
Hi Allison! I just LOVE quotes...so I had to post a few of my faves!
"Life is an occasion; rise to it!" Mr. Magorium in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." Paulo Coelho from his book 'The Alchemist'
"If you believe yourself worthy of the thing you've fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here." Paulo Coelho from 'The Alchemist'
"And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to PERSIST in love." - The Secret Life of Bees
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." Helen Keller
"People are about as happy as they make up their mind to be." Abe Lincoln
Those are a few...believe me, I could go on forever!!! lol
Dana :)
Oh! Just thought of one more that I love...
"Reality can be defeated with enough imagination!" Unknown
Dana :)
"Follow your bliss" is a tie with "No Worries" as my favorite quotes right now. I have found myself repeating both to different friends over the past couple of days! Very strange indeed. Love the GrandmotherBird Pendant!!
-Katherine
i love yr cards, allison.
i have 2 quotes that i live by
everyday of my life:
"if you want peace, prepare for war".
which is a universal quote for just about
everything in life.
and the second is:
"work as though you refuse to believe
that there is anybody out there who wants
this more than you".
(it's a quote that i got from a friend of mine
who passed away from cancer @ 20 years old. & i live by it everyday of my life, @ work, @ home, @ school, just trying to live life to the fullest and become everything i want to be.
-charissa
email: charissanicole@live.com
My favorite is "Art, break the rules" by Fred Babb. I tell my art students it's the only rule in school that you can break.
this one's from Kristina Ch.:
Long ago I lived in a farm community in rural WV. Many a dance party ran late into the night. Everyone walked home. I was totally unused to pitch blackness. A good friend simply told me to trust my feet. Great metaphor for life!
Dear God,
Put your arm around my shoulder
and your hand over my mouth.
Amen.
That one's from Melissa Fo.!
Hey Lady,
I love quotes! Here are two that have been in the back of my mind for several years now:
"Every day above ground is a good day." -- Scarface (among other sources). It reminds me in a pretty simple way, that no matter how crappy things look from my p.o.v. things could always be worse!
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." -- Mother Teresa. This one just reinforced that the right decisions are usually the hardest and that i was totally strong enough to handle it.
How fun!
Wintor
Hi Allison! I love my necklace, never take it off and get comments every day!
My quotes
"Suck it up Buttercup"
"It is what it is."
"Children are spoiled because you can't spank grandparents."
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." (unknown)
It's on our fridge and I read it every day... It seems to really fit our tiny little family. :)
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
—Mother Jones
Here's another...(and a favorite!):
I want to do it because I want to do it. (Amelia Earhart)
Hi Allison, I love my magnets, and I am so happy that you decided to do Grammy things, seeing that I am one. Ok, this is a totally 70's saying, but that's when my kids were little, and I always tried to remember that:
"Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded."
Since my short-term (and sometimes long-)memory isn't what it used to be, I can't seem to remember any more gems of wisdom. Happy Mother's Day!
ooh, ooh, I have another one, for what it's worth, haha. When feeling down and sad, we should always remember that "You are everything to somebody!" even if we're not aware of it. Happy Monday!
Hi, Alison.
My personal mantra...
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. (Julian of Norwich).
I live with chronic depression. On bad days, that quote reminds me that this too will pass; on good days, it reminds me that things will get even better... you don't get much more motivational than that!
marion
This too shall pass....
This helped me through some tough times, like labor!! :)
"To create is an endless dance of light and love" I just made that up tonight for my collage I just made!!! tee hee
and
"the blossom YOU are smelling may be also smelling YOU!" Cro (that's me, Cinda Rae Oliverio)
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