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To Have Succeeded
To laugh often and love much:
To win respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one's self;
To leave the world a little better,
Whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch,
Or redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
And sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier
Because you have lived...
This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

never put off untill tomorrow what you can get friends to do today..........froggy butterflys are angels checking to see if your heart is full of love,and your intentions are pure......froggy posts are written here to see if anyone is paying attention to the forum ,and it's content,remember tomorrow is but a promise,,love to you all....froggy

,froggy July 14, 2008 9:20 pm | Link

Oscar Wilde's Last Words:

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."

jen July 14, 2008 9:33 pm | Link

I know you think you understand what you heard me say, but what you don't realize is that what I said is not what I really meant. Thomas Merton

If you have nothing nice to say dont say nothing at all. (My Dad)

Christine July 14, 2008 9:39 pm | Link

You see, the reason I seem to be one step ahead of you is because when you're going for the milk, I'm coming back with the cheese ~ My Dad when I was a teenager :O)

"I have had something to prove
as long as I've had something that needs improvement
and you know that every time I move
I make a woman's movement."

Ani Difranco

anna July 14, 2008 9:50 pm | Link

Any day above ground is a good day! (from a magnet on my refrigerator)

cbel--love that one! I'm trying to narrow mine down...I love quotes.

Bessie July 14, 2008 10:19 pm | Link

Here's my favorite--- and I have the messy house to prove it!

The only place housecleaning and laundry come BEFORE sewing is in the dictionary~

SusieQ July 14, 2008 11:14 pm | Link

"You are what you do when it counts."

The Masao

hurikain July 15, 2008 12:21 am | Link

Don't Knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run away. Death hates that.

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

Lloyd Dobler; Say Anything

"I'm so mad I could spit blood!!"

... sadly, my dad

LOL

it just goes to show you..it's always something..Roseann Roseannadanna

ginger July 15, 2008 7:09 am | Link

The Devil is easy to identify.He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.Fiorello LaGuardia,mayor of NYC(1882-1947)

ginger July 15, 2008 7:51 am | Link

People will forget what you said,,people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

ginger July 15, 2008 7:53 am | Link

some people never go crazy,,what truely horrible lives they must lead. Charles Bukowski

ginger July 15, 2008 7:54 am | Link

Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like bananas.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,and sings the tune without the words,and never stops at all. Emily Dickenson

ginger July 15, 2008 7:57 am | Link

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

--Frank Sinatra

Mr. Resident July 15, 2008 8:17 am | Link

Tale as old as time,
Tune as old as song,
Bittersweet and strange,
Finding you can change,
Knowing you were wrong.

Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, from "Beauty and the Beast"

(Ginger -- love your stuff!)

Don't put off saying what you think or how you feel to somebody special in your life, you may not get a second chance.

My Mother

Chiman July 15, 2008 8:49 am | Link

"You get what you get, and you don't get upset."

- My daughter's preschool teacher

Be careful about giving the Devil a ride... pretty soon he's going to want to drive.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

If your not the lead dog the view never changes

What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.

marshmallow July 15, 2008 9:39 am | Link

I will keep a green tree in my heart so that a singing bird will come - Chinese proverb

2cutedoggies July 15, 2008 10:01 am | Link

You buttered your bed ~ now sleep in it!

...Daddy!

Col July 15, 2008 10:14 am | Link

You get what you get and don't get upset.

My sons pre school teacher

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence"


"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"

"If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

ALL ABOVE QUOTES ARE FROM : VINCE LOMBARDI

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother

I've heard this in slightly different versions attributed to several people.

awakeagain July 15, 2008 12:16 pm | Link

This to shall pass

It is what it is

tigerfan July 15, 2008 1:42 pm | Link

water rises to its own level.(my mother,,upon haveing met her neighbors new, on parole,husband)

ginger July 15, 2008 6:04 pm | Link

we train our children in much the same way we train our domesticated animals, by a system of reward or punishment.Don Miguel Ruiz,The Four Agreements.

ginger July 15, 2008 6:30 pm | Link

The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards:confidence for the shy,clarity for the uncertain,solace to the wounded and lonely,and the elusive promise of friendship and love. Pete Hamill,,A Drinking Life

ginger July 15, 2008 6:34 pm | Link

Ginger: The Four Agreements is one of my favorites -- such simple wisdom.

Cbel!! Ditto for your "i know you think what you think i said"or something like that!!

ginger July 15, 2008 6:43 pm | Link

"I love the womans movement especially when I'm walking behind it" Rush Limbaugh

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

"You don't know what you can do until you try."

Really liked the any day above ground quote :)

Ginger: Are you my clone? I loved Pete Hamill's "Drinking Life". You and I will have to have a play date!.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

"What goes around, comes around."

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching."
--- Satchel Paige

Firefly July 15, 2008 9:28 pm | Link

firefly,thats my favorite of all time,especially love like you've never been hurt,and dance like no one is watching,,and may I add (or cares)...froggy

,froggy July 15, 2008 9:32 pm | Link

Dancing is good for the soul ,froggy
How are you with dancing on a lilly pad? Ever fall in?

Firefly July 15, 2008 9:43 pm | Link

a little longer than a quote but I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."

It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Don't spit in the water you might have to drink it.


My Great-great grandmother, may she rest in peace

chrisb July 15, 2008 10:08 pm | Link

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings." Hodding Carter

newhere......Thanks for sharing that. Who wrote it? Sounds like it could be a wedding poem or wedding vow. I love it.

Firefly July 15, 2008 10:20 pm | Link

I loved Pete Hamill's Drinking Life, thanks for reminding me about it, I read that quite some time ago.

Bessie July 15, 2008 11:00 pm | Link

**The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother***

Anytime I make a scrapbook for a new baby, I use this quote. I think it says a lot!

Bessie July 15, 2008 11:03 pm | Link

You are great with your quotes, there are so many I never heard of and loved.

Bessie July 15, 2008 11:04 pm | Link

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Dont resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Tzu

Live each day as if it were your last- someday you'll be right. -unknown-

There is no better tranquilizer that a claear conscience.

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have."

- Thomas Jefferson

If Jimmy cracked corn and no one cared, why did they write a song about it?

"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."

~ Swedish Proverb ~

happy2bhere July 16, 2008 5:30 pm | Link

"Anyone from anywhere can make it if he gets a lucky break!"
--Tim Rice, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

"How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?"
--RENT

Alisonchocolatier July 16, 2008 5:34 pm | Link

I tried hypnosis to quit smoking. Now every time I light up I quack like a duck....Maxine

abbadabbadoooo July 16, 2008 5:52 pm | Link

Cbel! you know what they say: Two Great Minds Think Alike!! heres one by Marie Lords,circa 1861:A cowgirl gets up early in the morning,decides what she wants to do, and does it.

ginger July 17, 2008 9:17 pm | Link

Hey Cbel! check out' what are you reading now' if you read alot theres some good stuff out there! Check out Skippers idea about a book-exchange!

ginger July 17, 2008 9:19 pm | Link

my comeing to faith did not start with one great leap,but a series of staggers from one safe place to another.Anne Lamott,,Traveling Mercies

ginger July 17, 2008 9:40 pm | Link

GOOD GRIEF!! Anne Lamott is one of my gurus!

I listened to Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies: Thoughts on Faith on cd...loved it. She's an interesting person with a lot of great life experience.

Bessie July 17, 2008 10:52 pm | Link

To Do is to Be; To Be is To Do; Do Be Do Be Do

The Beatles

1. the beatings will continue until moral improves
2. an employee's biggest mistake is to believe that he is working for someone else

What goes around comes around!

JJames July 18, 2008 2:06 pm | Link

i plan on growing old much later in life,or maybe not at all.Patsy Carey,1902

ginger July 18, 2008 5:42 pm | Link

What??!! you can't sing while you stir the sauce??? a quote from the best Italian cookbook around,Rao's.

ginger July 18, 2008 5:44 pm | Link

"Even a broken clock is right once a day"

"PAIN is only temporary PRIDE is forever"

"A chain is as strong as its weakest link"

and don't forget to dance in the kitchen while the pasta boils over...me

Firefly July 18, 2008 11:13 pm | Link

Know God, know peace.

No God, no peace!


I see this on church signs everywhere. Its so true, isn't it???

SusieQ July 19, 2008 12:31 am | Link

Firefly!!! I've actually seen that happen in my late gran's wonderful Italian kitchen!!! Funny!!

ginger July 19, 2008 8:32 am | Link

"as you are i was, as i am you will be" - hunter s. thompson.

I just remebered a line from a song that I love. The song is Tapestry by Carole King. It is " I wept to see him suffer though I didn't kow him well"

OOPS typo on my name it should be FireFly

FireFly July 19, 2008 10:30 pm | Link

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 258-259.

lots more: http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln78.html

EB July 19, 2008 11:04 pm | Link

Althouh these are quotes and I find them interesting because of who said them they are not my views at all.

FROM AUDACITY OF HOPE... I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

FROM DREAMS OF MY FATHER...I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13 , when I beg to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.

FROM DREAMS OF MY FATHER...I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE.

FROM DREAMS OF MY FATHER...I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois, and Mandela.

FROM DREAMS OF MY FATHER...It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

WHERE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOPE.
My mom, when a grandson was born with a heart defect and not given much of a chance of surviving.

lola July 24, 2008 9:18 am | Link

"Forget world peace...envision using your turn signal"
- Bumper sticker

"My best friend is a dyslexic agnostic. He spends his life wondering 'Is there is a Dog?'"

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

-Ernest Hemmingway

"He who will not reason is a bigot. He who cannot reason is a fool. He who dares not reason is a slave."

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."

"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character"

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

Derek July 24, 2008 12:00 pm | Link

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin

"It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries."

-Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it"

--Confucius--

My people are destoyed for a lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowlege

God

"Behold the turtle"..He makes progress only when sticking his neck out!

Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished. -- Lao Tzu

"THINK" Thomas J.Watson Sr.

Jersey Joe July 27, 2008 10:04 am | Link

Choose a job you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-MLK

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
-Old Proverb

Here's the thing about the future: When you look at it, it changes...because you looked at it...and that changes everything else....
-From the movie called "Next" starring Nicholas Cage

"If you can't stand behind our troops then please feel free to stand in front of them."

hln917 July 27, 2008 12:30 pm | Link

He who has the power has the responsibility and he who has the responsibility has the power.

Gratitude is an attitude.

"If you can't stand behind our troops then please feel free to stand in front of them."

Excellent!

don't let perfection become the enemy of the solution

"Get busy living or get busy dying"

Life is like a box of chocolates...You never know what you are gonna get.

"Time don't mean nothin' to a hog"

I lived in western Nebraska for a time. That was a local saying. I loved it....I think it was meant to say....don't take yourself and lifes problems so seriously.

Dude.......Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian H
Eastern State Philadelphia Pa
Season 1

John C July 28, 2008 2:16 pm | Link

If you want Peace Then Prepare for war !!!!!!

I dont know what World war III will be fought with But i am sure World war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones


~ Albert Einstein

Que sera,sera

I came across this today from a NEW friend.

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try" JFK

Christine July 28, 2008 8:14 pm | Link

Re: The Invitation posted by newhere

One night, after an unsatisfying evening at a party, author Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote the start of The Invitation. By the light of her streetlight, she began, "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain...."
Her profound invitation (longer than is written here) became the framework for this wise and inspiring book. Chapter by chapter, the author uses passages from her "Invitation" to welcome readers into a life that is more soul fulfilling and passionate, and has far greater truth and integrity. In a sense, she invites readers to get a life instead of buying into a lifestyle. Each chapter ends with a guided meditation specific to the theme of the chapter, such as "The Joy" and "The Failure."

Despite her suspiciously New Age-sounding name, Oriah Mountain Dreamer is a highly grounded, practical, and honest writer. This fresh and beautifully packaged book is destined for great acclaim in the realm of spiritual inspiration. --Gail Hudson

(from amazon.com)

"Progress, not Perfection" -- FlyLady

"Abandon perfectionism; you don't have time for it."

I see one my favorite movie quotes is already here:

"Get busy living or get busy dying"

but it should be attributed to Andy Dufresne, not Red.

Live like no one else today so later on you can live like no one else - Dave Ramsey

Jennifer July 29, 2008 1:36 pm | Link

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.

-Seen on a T-Shirt

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever - Jimmy V

Don't give up.....don't EVER give up!! - Jimmy V

Be apart of the Solution, NOT the problem!

Jenn July 30, 2008 4:12 pm | Link

Dave Ramsey...I like the guy but I'm perplexed because most of what he says is obvious! There must be a good quote somewhere about common sense.....

Who is Dave Ramsey?

"when chosing between two evils, I like to try the one that I haven't tried before" - Mae West

"when chosing between two evils - one is still evil" - jerry garcia

The vixen in me likes the 1st quote but then the sensible me tries to remember the second (keyword "TRIES")

Dave Ramsey
http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/cms/dave_f...work_7703.htmlc

If it sounds too good to be true, it invariably is!

came across this one...very appropriate for today's society

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
Karl Marx, 1875

;)

"He who does not work, will not eat."

-Captain John Smith

"That's what she said..."

-Michael Scott

From my favorite show, The Office

"Mocking is catching, Beware of the bite"

My dearly departed Grandmother

bgood105 August 6, 2008 10:52 am | Link