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1/19/10 11:15 A

A quote I heard about Endurance: "Endurance is like dancing with a gorilla. You're not done when you're tired, you're done when the gorilla says you're done."
Very, Very true! Hugs Laurie

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1/15/10 10:00 P

A quote on happiness:

"Sometimes I do not even want to get out of bed because it seems that it is just going to be the same stuff --- different day!, But I Do get up and it seems that sometime during the day something happens ---- a Child laughing ---- Somebody saying Thank You ---- a Really beautiful flower that smells wonderful,etc.
Positive Thoughts are as Gimme if you just hear and see the Great things that are out there in your life!"
LISTEN!
from WILLOWWINDS

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1/13/10 11:20 P

Be who you are in every situation.
- Michael Johnson

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1/12/10 11:13 P

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- Anonymous

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1/12/10 12:27 A

That should be on our team pic!

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1/11/10 11:28 P

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." – Lou Holtz

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1/11/10 5:38 P

No kidding! I'm astounded!!

(hopefully I get this right; doing it from memory)
"The beauty of this world cannot be seen or even touched; it must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller. (not sure about the word "touched".

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1/11/10 2:25 P

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

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1/9/10 11:19 P

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

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12/30/09 4:22 P

This was the quote adt the end of something my mom sent me. Thought Id share!

" Until man extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." Albert Schweitzer

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12/30/09 8:40 A

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

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12/30/09 8:39 A

thats ok love it when people post ,,, hugs

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12/30/09 7:21 A

sorry i have a bad habit not putting down names.

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12/30/09 12:12 A

Nola do you know who said that? Id be curious. I found some Quotes to share on a members blog. Id like to post em here. There were 10 but I will only post a few;
Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted. (nuff said lol!)
This next one is an "updated version" of a quote I have heard but it is good!
Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks! (How True!)
This one is good too!
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism.
This one is number 2 but I like it better than her #1 pick.
Number 2
In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

If you want to read the whole list; its JOURNEY2PEACE's page!

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12/23/09 9:26 A

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”

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12/23/09 1:16 A

One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV

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12/23/09 1:15 A

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” – Tony Robbins

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12/22/09 5:55 P

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”




Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

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12/22/09 3:45 A

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing, humorist

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12/14/09 5:03 A

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

- Albert Einstein, physicist

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12/10/09 11:34 A

SO TRUE!!!!

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12/10/09 11:17 A

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
Ziggy, cartoon foible

The past is something we can not change. The future is something over which we had little control. The present day is what we choose to make it.
Kim's quote

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12/10/09 11:13 A

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12/10/09 10:22 A

One who fears failure, limits his activities! Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

No one can go back and change a bad beginning, but anyone can start anything anytime and create a successful ending.

If you wait to be happy, you will wait forever. But if you start to be happy, you will be happy forever.

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12/9/09 10:27 P

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS LAURIE AND YOUR GREAT QUOTES!!

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12/9/09 9:19 P

I just was going thru my subscriptions and found this one from 2008. The team was Dealing With Depression and this poem from DOWNEASTCAJUN on happiness was the only thing I took away from there. Ill see if CAJUN's still around and invite him here! Here's the quote:
You have to find out who you are and be that.
You have to decide what comes first and do that.
You have to discover your strengths and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others. Because no one else is in the contest of being *you*.

Then:
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you'll be a most vital mortal.

Dare to believe:
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in-all-history event.
That it's more than a right, it's your duty to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

I went to the page and found out something; DEC is a WOMAN so i do stand corrected!

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12/9/09 8:51 P

Rhonda, you came up with another good quote on your blog "My 7th Grader's Gym Class-My Motivational Fitness Plan" and here it is:


DON'T MEASURE YOURSELF BY WHAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED, BUT BY WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED WITH YOUR ABILITY."

words to live by for me! Thanks Rhonda!



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12/9/09 7:36 P

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12/9/09 4:00 P

Ok lets try again and remember to click "submit" this time!

This quote was given to me and Id like to share it. It doesnt have who wrote it but it is true.

"REMEMBER: The Race for LIFE is not a SPECTATOR SPORT!!! You can't "Sit This One OUT"!"

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12/9/09 1:25 P

YOU DESERVE A LITTLE LIFT! WAKE YOUR DREAMS. ROUSE YOUR PROMISE. SOMETHING MAGNIFICENT IS WAITING FOR YOU!!!~KATHY BRUCE

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12/7/09 12:46 P

ALOT OF GREAT QUOTES!!!!

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12/7/09 3:08 A

Now Im "getting away from the book" a bit, but I do love this line and its a QQ so here: From "The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint Exupery:"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." Hugs gn.

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12/6/09 11:09 P

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Eleanor Roosevelt, human rights activist

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12/4/09 7:37 P

There is nothing on earth you cannot have--once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it. Robert Collier.

Personally I ascribe this quote to virtues and goals. That is "attainable" goals. No one can (or should want) say, all the money in the world, cuz what would everyone else live on? But an attainable goal, once you have "mentally accepted that fact" is like the journey you are on today. Go For the GOAL!

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12/4/09 6:28 P

Live for today, yesterday is passed and tomorrow is not here. Enjoy

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12/4/09 10:18 A

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

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12/2/09 11:51 P

This second one from today, is also great. It's called: "You Are Amazing! Did You Know That?" And here it is. You know all those great traits you notice in other people? That STRENGTH and POISE? That CREATIVITY and STYLE? The POWER to get things DONE?
YOU HAVE ALL THAT, TOO!!
So next time you're feeling like you don't measure up; Try seeing yourself the way other people do:
AS SOMEONE WITH MORE GOOD QUALITIES THAN THEY CAN COUNT!!!!! Thank You Rhonda!

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12/2/09 11:39 P

Actually, two of Rhonda's blogs are so motivational and so full of warmth i wanted to put them here. This first one from yesterday is called "Inspirations"
You are AMAZING! Always have been; Always will be!!
You were born to LIVE your dreams!!!
You are a SUCCESS STORY! Write the next Chapter!
You have HOPE that is STRONGER than doubt!
You have so much HAPPINESS to GIVE and to LIVE!!
You have INNER JOY! So SMILE and Let it OUT!
You should remember; Just when you're feeling like things will never get better, THEY DO!
Three essentials to HAPPINESS are: Something to DO, Something to LOVE and Something to HOPE FOR--unknown.

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12/2/09 6:45 P

LOVE ALL YOUR QUOTES!!!

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12/2/09 11:42 A

Thank you for keeping up with the quotes. I love your choices!

I found a good one for me today..

"Knowing is not enough; we must APPLY. Willing is not enough, we must DO." GOETHE. If you want to know why i picked it, read my latest blogs!

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12/2/09 3:14 A

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
03/14/1879 - 04/18/1955

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12/1/09 5:16 P

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi

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12/1/09 12:03 P

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

- John Steinbeck, author

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11/30/09 1:10 A

No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.

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11/29/09 11:46 P

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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11/29/09 6:20 A

A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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11/28/09 10:50 P

When I indulge too much, I bulge too much!

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11/28/09 4:26 A

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

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11/27/09 3:58 A

Food for Thought:

"You see, but you do not observe"
Sherlock Holmes-A Scandal in Bohemia

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11/26/09 10:35 P

I found one tonight. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny SPARK of possibility within you into the FLAME of achievement. (uncredited)

Let's all fan the SPARK! Hugs Laurie

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11/26/09 3:03 A

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.
Roman proverb

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11/25/09 10:10 A

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

I like this quote!

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11/24/09 11:14 A

A pint of examples is worth a gallon of advice.

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11/23/09 4:45 P

I've got one, and its part of a song (country). Forgot who its by: "You've got to stand for something; or you'll fall for anything." Just remembered: Aaron Tippin.

I like today's motivational quote: It's from RICHARD L. EVANS; He says: "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." Have a great week! Laurie

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11/23/09 2:45 A

Found this quote today in Sparkpeople Healthy Reflections and just had to share it!

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

- Sally Koch

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11/22/09 9:26 P

Today's quote is one to make you think!

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei

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11/22/09 7:12 P

Just copied this one off Beliefnet; an online journal I subscribe too; the quote of the day is:
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia
I really like his way of phrasing; dont you?

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11/22/09 1:10 A

Ok I completely missed yesterday..oops..
One of my Favorite authors: Henry David Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." We all have a dream. The trick is to work at it and make that dream REALITY.

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11/21/09 5:21 A

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather

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11/20/09 6:50 P

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

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11/20/09 5:48 A

Udated quote!
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather

New version!
No person is a failure who is enjoying life!

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11/19/09 9:51 A

Here is a quote for some deep thought!

After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Aesop

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11/19/09 1:38 A

Let's see what I come up with today;
This is from David Joseph Schwartz: ...Energy multiplies when you set a desired goal and resolve to work toward that goal.
This is what I need to try to do today. I need to set my mind for a productive day. not like Wednesday.I need to get things DONE. And I will. Remember this quote..Laurie

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11/19/09 12:28 A

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -Henry Ford (1863-1947)

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11/18/09 2:48 P

How bout this one; sorry no "authorship"!
Develop the flexibility to adjust and adapt yourself to the changing patterns of life!
I love this quote; this is what it means to me; Yes my life is mapped out in certain things, but how i handle them and what new decisions i make is up to me, so they better be good ones! Hugs Laurie

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11/18/09 6:50 A

Today's quote is an oldie so I am updating it a little.
Original quote:
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley
Updated quote:
Every persons gotta right to decide their own destiny.
Bob Marley updated by Kim

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11/17/09 1:12 P

I got a book at a rummage sale and I will write their quotes that are "meant for us!" dont worry Ill mark em!
OK? Here's the first one: "Good work and Good companions are the building blocks of self-esteem".

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11/16/09 9:02 P

Here is today's Quote!

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott

Something to think on!

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11/15/09 6:28 A

Wow you are all coming up with some really great quotes!

Here are 2 new ones from me for today!

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden, Hall of Fame college basketball coach

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
Ziggy, cartoon foible

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11/14/09 10:50 P

When all else fails, read the directions

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11/14/09 9:01 P

When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

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11/14/09 6:14 P

My first quote (for I have alot!) is what's on my signature. I made this one up! "Don't 'dis' my ABILITIES!" Now we can say; "Don't 'dis' my ADAPTABILITIES!" Go TEAM!

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11/14/09 12:02 P

Beautiful quote JERSEYGIRL I love it!

DEE Very true and good quote!

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11/14/09 9:55 A

When in doubt dont...

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Nurture your dreams, Discover your passion, Embrace your visions, Free your spirit, Share your love, Love your soul."
- Vicki Virk

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11/14/09 6:41 A

Those of you who know me or read my blogs know I love quotes of all kinds!
I thought it would be fun to have a Quote thread on our team. I would like you to post here your favorite quotes, the quotes that motivate and inspire you and quotes that make you feel positive. Or if you are inventive and have written something that has helped to motivate you please feel free to share it here!

This is one of my favorite motivational quotes:"Don't make excuses, make improvements!"

Now it is your turn!

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