quotes

Thought for the Day

“Everybody likes a compliment” Abraham Lincoln When was the last time you received a compliment?  How did it make you feel?  Who can you give a compliment to today?  Your child, your spouse, a co-worker, your boss, a neighbor, the checkout clerk, the waitress, your child’s teacher?  Getting a compliment can instantly give someone the…
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Thought for the Day

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha Are your thoughts filled with joy? Is your first thought of the day one with joy or frustration, joy or disappointment, joy or grumbling?  Which do you think would be…
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Thought for the Day

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” Ronald Reagan How many nights a week do you sit together as a family around the dinner table/breakfast table?  For us, the dinner table is a priority.  Some nights it just isn’t going to work, but for the most part, I will hold off on…
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Thought for the Day

“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is key to happiness.” John Dewey Are you doing what makes you truly happy?  I know that I was meant to be a MOM and nothing has made me happier and more fulfilled in my life.  But, there…
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Thought for the Day

“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”  Benjamin Franklin Won’t you try this for today?  What if we all did this for one day? One week? One month?  One year?  Oh my, what a different world it would be.
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You Can Feel the Love

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share a couple quotes that I just fell in love with.  May you feel the love of friendship,the love of family, the love of a child, or from the love of your life today!  You can feel the love when you read these! Thus let me hold thee…
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Life Math

May your joys be added, your sorrows subtracted, your friends multiplied, and your enemies divided.
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Summer Afternoons

Summer Afternoon – Summer afternoon….the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James My summer afternoons are officially over.  The kids go back to school tomorrow, so today, we are soaking up this summer afternoon.
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Thought for the Day

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you.
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Quote for the Day

A quote from Charles Dickens: “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never fires, and a touch that never hurts.” Boy if we all followed these lessons for life wouldn’t the world be a better place?
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Stacie's bookshelf: read-in-2023

The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood
Food Fight
Spare
Foster
This Time Tomorrow
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Save What's Left
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
Golden Hills
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Favor
Small Things Like These
This Is How I Lied
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish: Book 1
Audrey L and Audrey W: True Creative Talents: Book 2
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
It Is Well With My Soul: My Story
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Book Lovers
A Girl Called Samson
Finn and the Feline Frenemy
The Levee
The Golden Spoon
Only the Beautiful
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
The Sisters Sweet
Fish in a Tree
This Tender Land
Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine
The Great Gilly Hopkins
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Beyond the Point
The Family
Hamnet
The Bookstore Sisters
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
The Cactus
Black Cake
Ban This Book
Passing
I'm Glad My Mom Died
These Precious Days: Essays
Evidence of the Affair
The Night Travelers
Out of the Corner
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
One Day in December

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