They are my friends.
I love the way that they feel in my mouth and the way that they tickle my funny bone.
I love the way that related words can differ from one another but only subtly.
The perfect one at the right time can be like rain on a hot thirsty soul
but a person can literally die from want of kind ones.
I love them so much that I have a collection of them - a collection of quotes - that I am constantly adding to.
If I ever write another blog it'll be called something along the lines of,
"The March- December Blog,"
because in the wintertime I am all out of words. They escape me. Flown south for the winter. Moved to greener pastures. Taken a long winter nap. Something.
I knew that this was true to an extent but I had no idea how very stale I found the words inside my own brain until this week when writing has become so very tiresome.
"Abundant sunshine," this is what the weather forecast calls for, tomorrow. I'm gonna go ride Horse and hold my face up to the sunshine and cross my fingers that the words come bubbling back. (They will, they always do.) Until then, I shall leave you with the wonderful words of other people, pulled from my quote collection:
"I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts."
- Dolly Parton.
"One can be too familiar with vegetables, you know!"
-Ratatouille
"Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well."
- Danish Proverb
"Those who don't get it, don't get that they don't get it."
-Colin Cowherd
"It's not 'brave' if you're not scared."
-Bounce
"A God you understood would be less than yourself."
- Flannery O'Connor
"Remember to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
And if you hate yourself, then please - just leave your neighbor alone."
-?
"Fear quitting, not failing."
- sign seen at Caribou Coffee, Woodstock, Ga
"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."
-Helen Keller
"I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience,
and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do."
- John Wesley
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
- Zora Neale Hurston
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
"I hate false modesty, it's just another way to lie."
-Ratatouille
"It's not who you are that holds you back,
it's who you think you're not".
-Author Unknown
"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person
who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood,
ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think
the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."
-Mac MacGuff, Juno
"Tell your story the way God gives it to you, regardless of what people say."
- Albert Wagner
"Courage is being scared to death....and saddling up anyway."
-John Wayne
"Little by little, one travels far."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Under capitalism man exploits man;
under socialism the reverse is true."
-Polish Proverb
"May those who love us, love us and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts and
if He can't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping."
- My favorite Irish blessing.
“There are two ways to live:
you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
-Albert Einstein
"He that would thrive, must ask his wife"
-English proverb
"Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do Something. Anything."
- Colleen Patrick Goudreau
"Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet."
-Roger Miller
"Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself.”
- Harvey Fierstein
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
-Winston Churchill
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
-- Rebecca West (1892-1983)
"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
-Bob Marley
"A brief shining moment and then, that mouth!"
-Miss Congeniality
"She behaves as if she was beautiful.
Most American women do.
It is the secret of their charm."
-Oscar wilde
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
-Louis L'Amour
… "I may never forget, but I need not always remember."…
- from Dr. Frank Ochberg's Survivor Psalm
“I can be changed by what happens to me, I refuse to be reduced by it.”
- Maya Angelou.
“Not all who wander are lost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen."
-CS Lewis, The Great Divorce, pg 75
“What kind of relationship that’s worth having requires holding back your truth?”
–Melissa J. Delbridge, Poets and Writers
“A failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.”
- sign, seen hanging in DMV in….California?
"There is nothing the dentist CAN do which will overcome what the patient WILL not do.”
–sign in my childhood Dentist’s office
"Superman isn't brave.
You can't be brave if you are indestructible.
It's every day people like me and you that are brave.
Knowing we can easily be defeated but still continue forward.
That's true bravery."
-Jesse Downs
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
-Sally Field
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- One of my favorite coffee mugs.
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