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Do you have an inspiring or favorite quote to share?

Posted by Zebra @californiazebra, Jun 21, 2023

I'll start with three quotes from the very inspiring Helen Keller as noted in "Your Year of Healing" book by Amit Sood, MD:

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

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frances007 | @frances007 | Aug 2, 2023

in reply to @johnbishop
I painted this one and put it out in my garden adjacent to the Carpe Diem sign that created such a stir with my next door neighbor. Every morning I have been opening my door and saying aloud, "Carpe Diem." She slams her door shut. LOL

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frances007 | @frances007 | Aug 2, 2023

I coined a new one of my own from that gun advertisement, and it is"
"You can have my spatula and my power tools when you pry them from my cold dead fingers."

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Valerie | @lacy2 | Aug 2, 2023
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That would work well for us older folks. By the time we finish doing that, we’ll probably forget what we were going to say.

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...as my elderly neighbours used to say and chuckle over; that they never buy green bananas!!!

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Zebra | @californiazebra | Aug 3, 2023

Hope doesn't mean it won't get dark. Hope means no matter how dark the night, the sun will appear. It always has and always will. -- Amit Sood

Not all battles are worth fighting. Carefully choose which battles are worthy of your time and which ones are best bypassed. -- Amit Sood

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olderdiva12345 | @olderdiva12345 | Aug 3, 2023
In reply to @olderdiva12345 "I like this one and have heard it before. Another Chinese proverb I like is: Turn..." + (show)
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I like this one and have heard it before. Another Chinese proverb I like is: Turn your tongue sever times before you speak".

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The way I know this is: "Turn your tongue seven times before you speak".

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olderdiva12345 | @olderdiva12345 | Aug 3, 2023
In reply to @frances007 "Creeir c'est vivre duex fois To create is to live twice. A French "proverb"" + (show)
@frances007

Creeir c'est vivre duex fois
To create is to live twice.
A French "proverb"

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I like to think that France is my country and that Le Val in the Var is my home town. I am American and right now I wish I was back in France.

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olderdiva12345 | @olderdiva12345 | Aug 3, 2023

A few more wittisisms:

"Im at an age when my back goes out more than I do." Phyllis Diller

"Life is a merderately good play with a badly written third act" Diane Von Furstenberg Love her fashions.

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything unteil noon. Then it's time for my nap." Bob Hope

That all for today. Have a great one.

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Zebra | @californiazebra | Aug 3, 2023

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first. --Harry S. Truman

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annewoodmayo | @annewoodmayo | Aug 4, 2023
In reply to @frances007 "in reply to @johnbishop I painted this one and put it out in my garden adjacent..." + (show)
@frances007

in reply to @johnbishop
I painted this one and put it out in my garden adjacent to the Carpe Diem sign that created such a stir with my next door neighbor. Every morning I have been opening my door and saying aloud, "Carpe Diem." She slams her door shut. LOL

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Frances,

What do you imagine your neighbor thinks "carpe diem" means?
Her reaction is really, really funny/odd.

🙂

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Lagrange 5 | @lagrange5 | Aug 4, 2023
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@olderdiva12345

I like to think that France is my country and that Le Val in the Var is my home town. I am American and right now I wish I was back in France.

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is very similar to liberte, egalite, fraternite [liberty, equality, fraternity].

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