Scars only show us where we have been. They do NOT dictate where we are going.
We are strongest at the broker places.
Live your chocolate ice cream.
Trust in God but tether your camel / lock your car.
Don’t count other people’s money…
“Live your chocolate ice cream.”
What in the world does this mean?
@gouf78 - I always figured that had to be a spoof of something, but since I put it on my door at college freshman year 40+ years ago, I’ve had no idea what the original was. Thanks!
for many, chocolate IC is the ultimate guilty pleasure–it wants you to LIVE loving your guilty pleasure, I think. It’s something Bernie Siegal,MD often uses with oncology patients motivatiionally.
Also, “Don’t sweat the small stuff–it’s ALL small stuff.”
I love who I am, quirks and foibles and all. Your approval is not needed.
Think twice, talk once.
Fall down six times, get up seven.
The entire world is a very strange carrot, yet the farmer is not afraid at all.
No one said life is supposed to be fair, so if life gave you lemons, make lemonade.
A kind answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
“If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
( Attributed to Mother Teresa)
Good one Massmomm- it took me a long time to learn that one but is one of the more important truisms I’ve learned.
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.
Tiptoe if you must, but take a step (Naeem Callaway)
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O’Connor
The one we have had on our refrigerator for the past four years:
“Expectations are premeditated resentments”
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” - John E. Southard
“Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part” is one of my favorites as well. I bought a sign featuring that quote at Target for $1several years back and have it prominently displayed on the bulletin board in my office. I would really love to scan it and include it as a full page in my syllabus, but that might be a little too much :))
For those especially tough days:
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Bull****…