I've been thinking of my word for this coming year - and Perseverance keeps coming to my mind. I wanted to have Curiosity - but Perseverance keeps being Persistent! I have many thoughts when I think of the word - from having stamina through hard time to moving through many learning experiences and coming through the new year with new insights. Always before my Word of The Year has been simple to understand - but this year it is not so easy.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
Things I Don't Say
My dear friend Crispy did a blog about this - it was fascinating, and brave, so I thought I'd give it a try.
Things I Don't Say - but that are true, none the less.
1. I hate entering a room full of people by myself, I'd much rather walk in right behind someone else.
2. I love to spend time all alone - by myself - completely quiet.
3. I don't like big wide fabric borders on quilts - they seem like cheating and rarely do they add to the beauty of the quilt.
4. I like dolls and love to make clothes for my six dolls.
5. I'll straighten a crooked picture on the wall if at all possible, even though "they" say if you can't leave a crooked picture alone you have no self control - but I say, if you leave a crooked picture you have no taste.
6. I like to slop around the house all day in my old clothes - but I'll get dressed nicely if I have to.
7. My favorite fabrics are 30s reproductions and I greatly dislike the new color combos of reds, turquoise, orange and neon lime, or turquoise and brown - yuck!
8. I don't make fad quilts, nor table runners or wall hangings - just not my thing.
9. I'll catch a spider, fly or any other bug and take it outdoors - I have a special butterfly net for just that - I never squish a bug.
10. I'll give money to people standing on the corner - if they are brave enough to stand there and take the hate and disrespect that I've seen then I'm happy to give them $20.00 - when I have so much and they have so little.
11. I feel bad when I hear a sad story about someone's life - everyone is somebody - and is someone's son, daughter, mother, father, aunt, uncle, sibling - everyone is somebody.
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Things I Don't Say - but that are true, none the less.
1. I hate entering a room full of people by myself, I'd much rather walk in right behind someone else.
2. I love to spend time all alone - by myself - completely quiet.
3. I don't like big wide fabric borders on quilts - they seem like cheating and rarely do they add to the beauty of the quilt.
4. I like dolls and love to make clothes for my six dolls.
5. I'll straighten a crooked picture on the wall if at all possible, even though "they" say if you can't leave a crooked picture alone you have no self control - but I say, if you leave a crooked picture you have no taste.
6. I like to slop around the house all day in my old clothes - but I'll get dressed nicely if I have to.
7. My favorite fabrics are 30s reproductions and I greatly dislike the new color combos of reds, turquoise, orange and neon lime, or turquoise and brown - yuck!
8. I don't make fad quilts, nor table runners or wall hangings - just not my thing.
9. I'll catch a spider, fly or any other bug and take it outdoors - I have a special butterfly net for just that - I never squish a bug.
10. I'll give money to people standing on the corner - if they are brave enough to stand there and take the hate and disrespect that I've seen then I'm happy to give them $20.00 - when I have so much and they have so little.
11. I feel bad when I hear a sad story about someone's life - everyone is somebody - and is someone's son, daughter, mother, father, aunt, uncle, sibling - everyone is somebody.
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