<p>“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall always be amused”</p>
<p>Give what you cannot keep to gain what you cannot lose.</p>
<p>"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. "
P. J. O’Rourke </p>
<p>“Always account for variable change”</p>
<p>“Anyone who lives within their means, suffers from a lack of imagination”
Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace”
(also Mr Wilde)</p>
<p>“All of our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them” Walt Disney</p>
<p>A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu</p>
<p>From Charles Dickens in David Copperfield:</p>
<p>“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”</p>
<p>Kept me out of a lot of misery over the years…</p>
<p>“Relax, Smile, Be Happy, Enjoy Your Work.”
- words from my favorite boss Will Gauthier.</p>
<p>“It’s A Great Day To Be Alive!!”
- words from his boss.</p>
<p>“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
–Gail Sheehy</p>
<p>“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
–Margaret Drabble</p>
<p>“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them”
–Antoine St. Exupery</p>
<p>“The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”</p>
<ul>
<li>Margaret Thatcher</li>
</ul>
<p>“If God is your co-pilot, switch seats!”</p>
<p>All beginnings are hard. - Chinese proverb?</p>
<p>I don’t mind work, I just mind extra work. - me</p>
<p>And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. - Louis Armstrong</p>
<p>If I’m not for myselF, who will be for me?
If I’m only for myself, what am I?
and if not now, then when?"
- Maimonides 12thc Jewish philosopher</p>
<p>“Do not hurry; do not rest,” Goethe</p>
<p>Fall down 1000 times, get up 1001.</p>
<p>“Most people are just about as happy as they make up thier minds to be,” Abe LIncoln</p>
<p>"“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” </p>
<pre><code> --Jack Kerouac (Happy 88th, Jack! Wherever you are.) 
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<p>“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams”, --Willy Wonka</p>
<p>It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.-- Teddy Roosevelt</p>
<p>My kiddos finally figured out that these were my 2 guiding principles for life and parenting…
It was great fun potty training with this thought process!!! (of course that could have been because I was young AND stupid!)</p>
<p>Kat</p>
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<p>Mathmom, I love it!</p>
<p>Kat, That Teddy Roosevelt quote is one of my favorites as well. </p>
<p>I have so many quotes that are dear to me but I think this one is it:</p>
<p>“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
– Walt Whitman</p>
<p>“Raising children is like being pecked to death by a chicken.”-Anonymous</p>
<p>A daily affirmation
God, today, there is nothing that you and I can’t face together.</p>
<p>I’ve always liked “God, if you won’t make me thin please make all my friends fat” but I don’t know who to credit.</p>
<p>“What our mind LINGERS on will INFLAME our emotions which will slowly CAPTIVATE our will and eventually CONTROL our life.” —unknown</p>