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Your Quotes Collection

Updated: Jun 15, 2023


-contributor, Christine Bourque

Dear friends and readers, thanks for sharing your favorite quotes. I hope you'll enjoy reading them!


COMMON SENSE


Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Grampa Vanny


Flattery is a lot like chewing gum.. It’s OK to savor the flavor, but don’t swallow it! Joan


Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. - Descartes Hubert

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates Sally


Don’t shit where you eat. - Rose Castorini, Moonstruck Dave



FORGIVENESS


Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

- Nelson Mandela Sally


Sometimes, the first step towards forgiveness is realizing the other person is totally bat-shit crazy. - anonymous Sally


HOPE

Sometimes handy

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cindy


It’s OK to sit on your pity pot for a little while, but the only thing you'll get is a red ring around your ass. Brenda


When something goes wrong in your life, just yell, “ PLOT TWIST” and move on! Brenda


When you replace "why is this happening to me" with "what is this trying to teach me," everything shifts. Brenda


KINDNESS


Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you -Princess Diana Cindy


Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and care to change a person's life. -Jackie Chan Cindy


Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. -Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Tom


LIFE LESSONS


Travel is fatal to prejudice. - Mark Twain Sue


I am a part of all that I have met. -Tennyson Cindy


I am a combination of all my life's experiences- the good, bad and ugly. Cindy


It's better to have tried and failed, than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried. -Tennyson Cindy


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Tennyson Cindy


If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Seneca Hubert


No problem can be solved with the same consciousness that caused the problem in the first place. - Einstein Kat


If you think positively every single day, work hard, strive to become the best version of yourself, surround yourself with inspirational people and never give up, then there is no limit... to how exhausted you can be! - Svend Brinkmann Fernanda


LOVE


It is chance that makes us cousins, but hearts that make us friends. - Zig Ziglar (paraphrase) Whitney, my cousin


She's in the sun, the wind, the rain

She's in the air we breathe With every breath we take. She sings a song of hope and cheer There's no more pain, no more fear See her in the clouds above, Hear her whisper words of love. We will be together before long, Until then, listen for her song.

- Christy Ann Martine Cindy


The best gift that parents can give their children is roots and wings. Joan


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SPIRITUAL


Be still and know that I am God - Psalms 46:10 Joan and Kellie

Variations: Be Still, Be


There is nothing that can happen to me today, God, that You and I cannot handle together. Joan


Dear (fill in your name),

I know what I’m doing!

Love, God Brenda


All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever has done these two things best, has made himself most saintly. - Saint Frances de Sales Kyle



UNCLASSABLE CLASSIC


Don’t worry, about a thing, ‘cause every little thing, gonna be alright - Bob Marley Kyle


A great quote, a great song, and a great chance to practice your French:



Extra quote from Jo Burbage:


Chez les Burbage, tout le monde donne des ordres et chacun fait ce qu'il veut. femme de menage des Burbage's

At the Burbage's, everyone gives orders but each person does what s/he wants.

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