Quotable Sunday 1/10/2009

Happy Sunday!

Here is the second Sunday quotables, I hope ya'll enjoy them.. AND perhaps even join in this Sunday!

Here are the rules:
~ Post a new post on your blog with some of your favorite quotes.
~ Go to A Daily Dose of Toni and post your link in the mister linky.
~ Go check out all the other cool bloggers that are joining in Quotable Sunday, check back all day as people will post throughout the day.

This weeks topic is, optimism. I think we all need those positive thoughts about the world we live in, and about ourselves! Keep thinking up.. and it's the only way you can go!!

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. ~Robert G. Allen

*How many times have you seen/heard of a pessimist giving up on something because they talked themselves out of it? I am sure, just as many times as someone has succeeded. It's all about state of mind!*

An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette

*It is much nicer to be the person who usually has something nice to say, than the person who constantly downgrades their life, themselves and those around them.*

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~Oscar Wilde

*We are our worst enemies! It's horrible the terrible things we believe about ourselves, usually because our thoughts are tainted by the negative words of others. Continue to be positive and become a naysayer of the negative ninny's out there :) *

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~Sir Winston Churchill

* Well said Mr. Churchill! Lets get rid of those negative thoughts and stay positive. Try it for one day... What can it hurt?*

Thank you for reading Quotable Sunday! I hope ya'll visit the other participants as well!

Quotable Sunday 1/4/2009

First Quotable Sunday of 2009.

The rules (for newbies)
~Go to your blog and post one or more of your favorite quotes.
~Go to A Daily Dose of Toni and sign mister linky with the link to your post and then go visit the other participants and leave some comment love.
~Spread the word of course...we want lots of Quotes to read :)

That means a new beginning, whether very little will change for you this year, we all need to do something different.

Save more money? Lose weight? Buy your significant other the gift that will light up their eyes (a new truck or that piece of art they have always wanted? Something that lingers in our mind all the time that we say, "I will do that one day". Why not this year? Why not start now?

No motivation?
Well that is what my quotes are about this week. Motivation!

My need for motivation?
* To lose 50 pounds, I have the six kids, I don't need a reminder every time I look in the mirror.
* Get my finances in order, I don't have much to do, but enough that keeps me from getting what I want.

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister

~No one said that life will be easy nor will our paths be easy, however, we must continue on to win, against ourselves!~

"Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control."Anonymous

~Do not go overboard on your endeavors! Take it in stride, and one day at a time, you will get there~

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche

~You must remember everyday WHY you are on the path you are on. Honestly, the best reason of all.. for yourself~

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives.Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
Jim Rohn

~My boyfriend taught me this. He had an.. "attack plan" for his life, and he's stuck with most of it. I never did, I've always lived by the seat of my pants... perhaps there is some validity to his way of thinking~

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."
Brian Tracy

~This is very important, they need to know they can succeed at anything they attempt, even if it seems impossible. This doesn't mean do it for them, however give them the foundation to do it for themselves!~

Quoteable Sunday 12/21/08

Rules Are Simple

~Post a quote post on your blog
~Go to A Daily Dose of Toni and sign Mister Linky so we can all visit each others posts.

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My quotes this Sunday are about Christmas. It's a holiday that many of us celebrate and it is worth mentioning since we are 4 days away and most of us have flutters in our stomach about it.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." ~ Peg Bracken.

*~ I love the time I get with my friends this time of year! I have an annual Yule party (which is getting bigger every year) and it's a night where we all just enjoy the time with one another, little drama, great drinks, tons of food and gifts!

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes." ~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor.

*~ I know a few people who hate the holidays, I can't imagine not having the feeling of the holidays in my heart for the month. I love it. I love wrapping gifts, imagining people's faces when they open their gifts and the morning rush to the front room seeing what "santa" has left them. It's a wonderful feeling of hot chocolate, peppermint and hugs... all in your heart!

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!" ~ Charles N. Barnard, American author, travel writer.

*~ This is so true, though I must say.. in my heart of hearts, very few Christmas trees are as imprinted in my mind than this one will be. It's like a picture perfect image burned in my memory. Here is Dave dragging his tree to the truck!


I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." ~ Harlan Miller

*~ What a beautiful thought... Christmas for a year.. once a month with your children, or even just the one you love... One day... One year I'll do this!

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas."
~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.

*~ So true... Having this be the first Christmas I have with my new beau, I know that the next one.. and the one after will be even better. We will know more about each other, we will have a full year of memories and another year to create our traditions. Not a Christmas has gone by that I don't love the thought of the next one.

Thanks for reading this weeks "Quotable Sunday".

Happy Holidays to you and yours! Warm Blessings and a fruitful 2009!