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Category Archives: Quotes
GetActive21 Day 7 – Today
A few days ago I started on this getting active thing and it’s already been one week!
Posted in Exercise, Food, Get Active 21, Life, Quotes, Uncategorized
Tagged abraham lincoln, activity, benjamin franklin, calories, exercise, fitness, food, getting fit, human.co, MyFitnessPal, pedometer, procrastination, walking
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There are two ways to get enough; one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. -G.K. Chesterton
Posted in Life, Quotes
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Today Will Do
Posted in Christianity, Life, Poetry, Quotes
Tagged grace, joy, mercies, race, Roy Lessin, today, tomorrow
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Even if you’re …
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
Our lives are f…
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us. – Anne Frank
If lawyers are…
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? – Virginia Ostman
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Tagged clergymen, cowboys, dry cleaners, electricians, lawyers, models, musicians, tree surgeons, Virginia Ostman
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Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quotes
Tagged consideration, contentment, Desiderata, happiness, Max Ehrmann, peace, poetry, truth
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HAPPY NEW YEAR – Resolutions, Mixed Feelings and #verse2014
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! Welcome to 2014. I imagine that a lot of us prepared for the new year by making resolutions, setting goals and aspiring to achieve great things. I am not really a new year resolution person – … Continue reading
Posted in Bible verses, Christianity, Quotes
Tagged 2014 bible verse, anticipation, courage, expectation, faith, fear, goals, God, Isaiah 40, Isaiah 41, Joshua 1, mixed feelings, new year, nonchalance, Proverbs 4, Resolutions, strength, targets, youversion
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The best laid s…
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Robert Burns, To a Mouse (Poem, November, 1785) (Yeah I went and looked for it)