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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What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabout

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Love many; trust few; always paddle your own canoe

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@ksolomon

"Live in the moment."

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Amen!

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@captboat

“Give flowers to the living”
James Wellington Jackson

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in reply to @captboat I was taking another look at your quote and was reminded of a quote that I have on my refrigerator. It is from Anne Frank.

Dead People Receive More Flowers Than the Living Ones Because Regret Is Stronger Than Gratitude

No, I am not morbid and have been laughing all day because I turned 62, and in all honesty feel like I have been "reborn." Not "born again." The new Frances is now learning to be kind to herself, just as she has been so kind to others. It took me 30 years to figure this out, and I probably owe it all to my friend Joyce to whom I am caregiver, soon to be stepping back, slowly.

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@frances007

in reply to @captboat I was taking another look at your quote and was reminded of a quote that I have on my refrigerator. It is from Anne Frank.

Dead People Receive More Flowers Than the Living Ones Because Regret Is Stronger Than Gratitude

No, I am not morbid and have been laughing all day because I turned 62, and in all honesty feel like I have been "reborn." Not "born again." The new Frances is now learning to be kind to herself, just as she has been so kind to others. It took me 30 years to figure this out, and I probably owe it all to my friend Joyce to whom I am caregiver, soon to be stepping back, slowly.

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I honor and respect you for your sacrifice as a caregiver.
Please accept my bouquet as an act of my love. God bless you.

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in reply to @captboat Hey, I looked at your message and said aloud, "Oh wow." You are something else, my friend, and I thank you

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"You can always learn something from anybody.
Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.
Don't do anything take away a man's dignity. It might be the only thing he has left."

Samuel McCullough Whitesell (1905-1984)

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We are born naked, wet and hungry, Then things get worse.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

A clear conscience is usually the result of a poor memory.

Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?

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I found this quote in a drawer where I save miscellaneous things. I thought it was quite potent. I have no idea where it came from but here it is.
"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
And, to balance that one out, I just found this one:
"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget." - Maria Edgeworth.

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