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Teri · Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 5:06 am Post subject:

A designated driver helps you party another day. ~Author Unknown

Teri · Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 4:55 am Post subject:

I love the quiet calmness before the world is just waking up. That amazing moment before the chaos of the day starts. Mornings are magical. ~Keith Wynn

JohnT · Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 4:05 pm Post subject:

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”

― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
(Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. born 1904, died 1991)

Teri · Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 5:01 am Post subject:

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 2:42 pm Post subject:

"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”

― Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet, jockey, police officer, and politician.
Born: 1833, Faial Island, Portugal
Died: 1870, Melbourne, Australia

Teri · Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 3:56 am Post subject:

"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!" ~J. K. Rowling

Teri · Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 5:10 am Post subject:

It is impossible to keep a small boy in the house, even in the worst weather, unless he has a sister to torment. ~Mary Wilson Little

JohnT · Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 5:15 am Post subject:

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

--- Garry Marshall
(American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor, best known for creating Happy Days and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, 1934 - 2016)

Teri · Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 6:20 am Post subject:

Nature's law is stronger than any little law you have made for yourself. ~Frank A. De Puy

JohnT · Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 10:09 am Post subject:

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”

--- Maya Angelou (1928-2014), American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

Teri · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 5:07 am Post subject:

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 5:29 am Post subject:

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

― Stephen King, The Dark Tower, American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy, born 1947.

JohnT · Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 8:21 pm Post subject:

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”

― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, American writer of young adult fiction, born 1967.

Teri · Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 5:03 am Post subject:

Heredity is much, environment is much, but I am much more. ~Muriel Strode

JohnT · Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 5:49 am Post subject:

“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”

― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy, American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer, born 1950.