Favorite Quotes...

[speckledpup]

I thought it might be nice to share some of our favorite quotes with one another. Personally, I could use some inspirational ones but any will do...

I will start.

"Friends are the family we chose for ourselves."

"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill

Hope everyone is doing good. Happy Holidays to you all!

Loyally,
SpeckledPup

[honeychile]

I was raised with these:

"Service to others is the rent you pay for the space you occupy on earth." Albert Schweitzer. (It may be "Service to others in Jesus...")

"Politeness is to do and say
The kindest thing in the kindest way."

"It takes so little to be kind."

"Procrastination never was a virtue of maturity." (courtesy of my Honors English teacher, Natalie Schall, whose daughter Lisa is an Alpha Phi.)

[MiamiADPi]

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."

"There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart."

Life isn't a destination -- it's a journey. We all come upon unexpected curves and turning points, mountaintops and valleys. Everything that happens to us shapes who we are becoming. And in the adventure of each day, we discover the best in ourselves

Don't be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better

"The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before"

Hope everyone has a happy and healthy holiday season!

[TechADPI]

Ooooh I love quotes too! Most of my favorites come from movies or TV shows though...

"What we do in life, echos in eternity." -The Gladiator

"Live everyday as if it were your last... because one day it will be." -Life or Something Like It

"It's not what the world holds for us... it's what we bring to it." Anne of Green Gables

[texas*princess]

I'm such a quote nerd!!!!

My all-time fav is "Sometimes you're the windshield... sometimes you're the bug."

[MiamiADPi]

t*p ---- "sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug" - haha, that's a good one. so true, so true.

[texas*princess]

I recieved it one day from one of those quotes-a-day email listserves my freshman year in college, and it's been my little saying ever since. Thank you, Mark Knopfler, for coming up with that clever saying! :P

[prinzessgena]

A favorite I have is from my Freshman High School ENglish Teacher

"Awake we share a common world, asleep we enter our own"

My other favorite is a coldplay quote

"Nobody said it was easy, nobody said it would be this hard.

[emleepc]

I sat under an oak tree in Florida on a summer day, drinking iced tea and visiting with my mother. "Don't forget your girlfriends", Mother advised, clinking the ice cubes in her glass. No matter how much you love your husband, you are still going to need girlfriends.
Remember to go places with them now and then; and do things with them, even when you don't necessarily want to, And remember that girlfriends are not only friends, but sisters, daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other relatives too. Women supporting and relating to other women is our responsibility and our gift.
"What a funny piece of advice," I thought. "Hadn't I just gotten married? Hadn't I just joined the couple-world? I was now a married woman, for goodness sake, not some young girl who needed friends!"
But I listened to my Mom. I kept in contact with my girlfriends and even found some new ones along the way. As the years tumbled by, one after another, I gradually came to understand that Mom really knew what she was talking about!

Here is what I know about girlfriends:

***girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you need help;
***girlfriends keep your children and your secrets.
***girlfriends give advice when you ask, sometimes you take it and
sometimes you don't.
***girlfriends don't always tell you you're right, but they usually
tell the truth.
***girlfriends still love you, even when they disagree with your
choices.
***girlfriends laugh with you and don't need canned jokes to start the
laughter.
***girlfriends pull you out of jams.
***girlfriends don't keep a calendar of who hosted the other's last
big party.
***girlfriends will celebrate for your son or daughter when they get
married or have a baby, in whichever order that happens.
***girlfriends are there for you in an instant, and when the hard times come,
***girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a friend.
***girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.
***girlfriends listen when your parents' minds and bodies fail.
My daughters, sisters, family, and friends bless my life! When we
began this adventure, we had no idea of the incredible joys or sorrows
that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other.....

Pass this on to your girlfriends/sisters/daughters.. I just did!

Read the next 2 lines very slowly and let it sink in...
If God brings you to it,
He will bring you through it.

[Lindz928]

I love this one:

"If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun!"
-Katherine Hepburn

And the quote that I try to remember in everything I do is the first one in my profile.