Monday, September 29, 2014

Get Confident

Confidence

 Sometimes confidence is about faking it until you make it.


We don't need an army.  We just need to convince everyone that we have one."
 -Brandon Sanderson, Infinity Blade Redemption

Friday, September 26, 2014

Life Quotes


 LIFE QUOTES


The race is not always to the swift. (I like this short and sweet version about the Tortoise and Hare story)
-Aesops Fables for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise

Life is interesting, even though you know what's coming, it still surprises you.
-Mamijammi.blogspot.com original

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Wisdom/Life/Choices, sayings words to live by, quotes


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 I realized that I run across great quotes and sayings every day.  One day, I decided to start writing them down.  So, here they will be planted and set to grow. I hope you help me water them by coming back often, by enjoying them and letting me know if you come across something too...or whether they have inspired you in some way... 

 

 Wisdom/Choices

Only trees are rooted in land, and there they stay. You should know this, great oak. But a man whose heart is rooted in family finds a home wherever his pack is, and he is truly the free man.”
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

“Tears are not just for children. My mother once told me that a soul is a river and that the spirits give us teardrops when we have converged with another life. We overflow with them because our spirits become wider and deeper than before. Those who lack love or compassion will not be given the gift of tears.”
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

No one likes to be interrupted, but everyone likes to be heard.
-Margaret Shepard, The Art of Civilized Conversation


When you forget what you have for what you've lost, grieving's an indulgence
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea


Act in hast and repent at leisure - and often in pain.
-Aesops Fables for Children, The Dog and the Oyster

Words have magic.  Spells and curses.  Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

A single choice can build destinies or destroy them.  Choose well.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

Friday, September 19, 2014

New Arrivals


 New Arrivals 

You can find new quotes by date here.  I sometimes don't have time to categorize them until later.  The highlighted ones have been categorized.  As you can tell I am really into Nora Roberts books right now :)

January, 4, 2015
Church was a man with two sides to his life, like a coin. One I wished I could keep in my pocket.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

Only trees are rooted in land, and there they stay. You should know this, great oak. But a man whose heart is rooted in family finds a home wherever his pack is, and he is truly the free man.”
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

January 3, 2015
But this is my life, and I have to accept it even if I don’t like it. You can’t live in denial or it catches up with you.”
- Six Months, Dannika Dark

Sometimes things that are worth having are worth fixing up. Not everything comes in perfect condition, but it doesn’t mean it’s not the right one for you.”
- Shifters After Dark, Dannika Dark

“Hate burns most fiercely in a heart once filled with love.”
- Shifters After Dark, Dannika Dark

“Love makes a man more loyal than fear.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

There is something pure and honest in the way a man treats a woman when he thinks she isn’t aware.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

“Tears are not just for children. My mother once told me that a soul is a river and that the spirits give us teardrops when we have converged with another life. We overflow with them because our spirits become wider and deeper than before. Those who lack love or compassion will not be given the gift of tears.”
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

October 15, 2014
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
-Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations on Wall Street, 1940

October 14, 2014
No one likes to be interrupted, but everyone likes to be heard.
-Margaret Shepard, The Art of Civilized Conversation

October 10, 2014
Once you stop thinking of your heart as a weapon instead of a gift, you'll find what you're looking for.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea



October 8, 2014
When you forget what you have for what you've lost, grieving's an indulgence
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea


October 6, 2014

You decide what you think.  You decide what you put in your mind and so determine what you get back.
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

 October 5, 2014

Your mind is a magnet.  Continue to dwell on what you want and you will achieve it. 
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy


October 4, 2014

If you are miserable about all the things you want but haven't got, think about all the things you don't want and haven't got!  There is a positive side to everything!
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
 -Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

October 3, 2014

Some people want the simple and the ordinary and the quiet.  It doesn't make those who want the complicated and extraordinary and the exciting greedy or selfish.  Wanting's wanting, whatever the dream.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea

October 2, 2014

You are not the enemy and neither is your child.  You and your child are allies against a common enemy...[t]hey are enemies we all face: fear, stress, intolerance, misunderstanding, discouragement, exhaustion, disappointment.
-Lucy Palladino, PHD, Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos

Once you stop thinking of your heart as a weapon instead of a gift, you'll find what you're looking for.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea


October 1, 2014

If you think you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
 -Walter Mondale

The race is not always to the swift. (I like this short and sweet version about the Tortoise and Hare story)
-Aesops Fables for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise

September 30, 2014

Act in hast and repent at leisure - and often in pain.
-Aesops Fables for Children, The Dog and the Oyster

September 29, 2014

We don't need an army.  We just need to convince everyone that we have one."
 -Brandon Sanderson, Infinity Blade Redemption

An ember deep within.  Not a fire - no, a fire consumed and left its host as ash.  A ember was a truer flame - less transient, more powerful.

 -Brandon Sanderson, Infinity Blade Redemption

September 26, 2014

Life is interesting, even though you know what's coming, it still surprises you.
-Mamijammi.blogspot.com original

Adjustments can't be all on one side, darling, else the balance goes of and what's being built just falls down.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

September 20, 2014

You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell.  Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile.  But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

Girl if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.  if you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it.  Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof.  You take him as he is...or you don't take him at all.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon



September 19, 2014

Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

Words have magic.  Spells and curses.  Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

A single choice can build destinies or destroy them.  Choose well.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

Poetry doesn't most usually spring from joy, does it, but from sorrows.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

What matters is not whether you had a bad day or two, but that you're able to create enough good days to get you where you want to go.
-Manny Ibay, Esq., Thank You, Tony Robbins


Friday, September 5, 2014

Be Happy



BE HAPPY

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 I realized that I run across great quotes and sayings every day.  One day, I decided to start writing them down.  So, here they will be planted and set to grow. I hope you help me water them by coming back often, by enjoying them and letting me know if you come across something too...or whether they have inspired you in some way...



If you are miserable about all the things you want but haven't got, think about all the things you don't want and haven't got!  There is a positive side to everything!
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy


I will give you the secret.  If you want to be happy, BE HAPPY!
- Indian Guru

Being happy is not always easy...It can be one of the greatest challenges that we face and can sometimes take all the determination, persistence and self-discipline that we can muster.
- Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

You deserve love and respect just because you are you.
- Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

You are not only human. You are HUMAN.  Recognize your own worth and constantly remind yourself that you deserve to be treated well.
- Andrew Matthews, Being Happy



Quotes about Relationships


 RELATIONSHIPS



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 I realized that I run across great quotes and sayings every day.  One day, I decided to start writing them down.  So, here they will be planted and set to grow. I hope you help me water them by coming back often, by enjoying them and letting me know if you come across something too...or whether they have inspired you in some way...

Church was a man with two sides to his life, like a coin. One I wished I could keep in my pocket.

-Four Days, Dannika Dark

There is something pure and honest in the way a man treats a woman when he thinks she isn’t aware.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

“We live in the moment and [women] think about what’s coming. If they didn’t keep us in check, we’d f*%# up the planet.”
Shifters After Dark, Dannika Dark

You are not the enemy and neither is your child.  You and your child are allies against a common enemy...[t]hey are enemies we all face: fear, stress, intolerance, misunderstanding, discouragement, exhaustion, disappointment.
-Lucy Palladino, PHD, Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos


Adjustments can't be all on one side, darling, else the balance goes of and what's being built just falls down.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof.  You take him as he is...or you don't take him at all.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

It is always OUR CHOICE whether we get on with our life and live in the now, or whether we chain ourselves to grudges and upsets of the past.
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

Why was it women could go to pieces of fly into a rage at the smallest thing, yet never flicker an eyelash at what left you gaping?
-Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

You do not call her 'Mother' ever?  This seemed to puzzle him.  A 'mother' is what she is, not who she is, he said after a time.
-Robin Hobb, Renegade's Magic

What you say to your child becomes what your child says to herself.
- Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D,  Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos

Your child's belief in hinself begins with your belief in your child.
- Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D,  Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos

The most critical time to find a point of agreement with your child is right at a point of disagreement. 
- Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D,  Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos

When you can't give your child what he asks for, give hi what you can-for example, respect, attention, understanding, and a friendly spirit.
- Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D,  Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos

Motivational Quotes




MOTIVATION


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 I realized that I run across great quotes and sayings every day.  One day, I decided to start writing them down.  So, here they will be planted and set to grow. I hope you help me water them by coming back often, by enjoying them and letting me know if you come across something too...or whether they have inspired you in some way...


You decide what you think.  You decide what you put in your mind and so determine what you get back.
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy


Your mind is a magnet.  Continue to dwell on what you want and you will achieve it. 
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy


We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
 -Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

 Poetry doesn't most usually spring from joy, does it, but from sorrows.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

What matters is not whether you had a bad day or two, but that you're able to create enough good days to get you where you want to go.
-Manny Ibay, Esq., Thank You, Tony Robbins

Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

 What matters is not whether you had a bad day or two, but that you're able to create enough god days to get you where you want to go.
-Manny Ibay, Esq., Thank You, Tony Robbins

If you are serious about changing your life, get serious about changing what surrounds you.
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

"Go back?" he thought. "No good at all!  Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do!  On we go!"
-The Hobbit, J.R.R.Tolkien

Power comes most easily to the man who appears powerful.
-Robin Hobb, Renegade's Magic

Why not ask for all, as you never know what life's going to hand you?
-Nora Roberts, Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy

In short, he would become a fighter.  He would take that single - but so hard - step across the line from dreamer to doer.
-Branden Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

Ten percent of life is made up of what happens to you.  Ninety percent of life is decided by how you react.
- Chad Mureta, App Empire


Love quotes


QUOTABLES 

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 I realized that I run across great quotes and sayings every day.  One day, I decided to start writing them down.  So, here they will be planted and set to grow. I hope you help me water them by coming back often, by enjoying them and letting me know if you come across something too...or whether they have inspired you in some way...

 

LOVE 

“Hate burns most fiercely in a heart once filled with love.”
- Shifters After Dark, Dannika Dark

Once you stop thinking of your heart as a weapon instead of a gift, you'll find what you're looking for.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea

An ember deep within.  Not a fire - no, a fire consumed and left its host as ash.  A ember was a truer flame - less transient, more powerful.
  -Brandon Sanderson, Infinity Blade Redemption



You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell.  Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile.  But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

Girl if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.  if you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it.  Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

Love...it could make you a fool or a hero.  Or both at once.
- Nora Roberts' books, the Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy

Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake.  It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.  The day you'll take it, hold it, you won't be afraid.
- Nora Roberts' books, the Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy

It's the heart that gets us through the hard ties, and gives us joy.
- Nora Roberts' books, the Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy

Love needs tending...It's some work to keep the light and the warmth, but why would you want to be cold in the dark?
- Nora Roberts' books, the Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy

I expect sometimes both tend, and other times one may tend more as the other forgets for a bit, then it might shift over again."
- Nora Roberts' books, the Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy

Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar.
- Nora Roberts' books, the Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy