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Everyday Living

The how-to's of surviving parenting the second-time around.


Words Of Wisdom 

Our lives seem to always be filled with challenges, constant changes...some up and some down,  yet everyday is a new slate to do with as we wish. Sometimes we make a worng turn and that is when we need our friends to help us get back on track. The following are some pearls of wisdom that I have found along the way that have touched me. I hope some of these quotes will help you on this journey we are on as well.


Life is what we make it,

always has been,

always will be.

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Grandma Moses

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, 

acutely miserable, wracked with sorrow, but through it all I still

know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing

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Agatha Christie

Our way is not soft grass,

it's  a mountain path with lots of rocks.

But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. 

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Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

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Margaret Mitchell 

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, 

for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

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Mary Pickford

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,

till it seems as though you could not hang on one minute longer,

never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will change.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,

they are supposed to help you discover who you are.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

 

When I am hassled about something. I always stop and ask myself what difference it will make in the evolution of the human species in the next ten million years, and that question always helps me get back my perspective.

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Anne Wilson Schaef

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes.  It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

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Jessamyn West

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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Agnes Repplier

 

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in.

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Katherine Mansfield

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.


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Mildred Witte Stouven

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

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Grace Hansen

 
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in a quest of some rare  and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, you return.


~~~~~

Mary Jean Iron

Yesterday is a cancelled check

Tomorrow is a promissory note

Today is cash in hand; spend it wisely

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Anonymous

Happily may I walk,

May it be beautiful before me,

May it be beautiful behind me, 

May it be beautiful below me,

Mayr it be beautiful above me,

May it be beautiful all around me,

In beauty it is finished.

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Navajo prayer

It only takes one person to change your life....you.

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Ruth Casey

Trust your gut!

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Barbara Walters


Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you have given up is bitch. I've know some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art.


~~~~

Molly Ivins

Created by Linda Mayr 

10-18-99
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Did You Know
That supporting the grandparent caregivers costs only third the money that goes to supporting a child in foster care.

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