Diamonds In The Rough

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in the Rough

All Good Stuff!

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Haven't been here in a while. Thought I'd post here tonight and hopefully stimulate our creative sides some, with more forthcoming Diamonds in the Rough.

We'all likely have found some inspiring quotes, ect. or "diamonds" if you may, along our way. If you have any you'd like to share here, please do so.


Hope

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“ Caring for one another, we sometimes glimpse an essential quality of our being. We may be sitting alone, lost in self-doubt, or self pity, when the phone rings with a call from a friend who’s really depressed. Instinctively, we come out of ourselves, just to be there with her and say a few reassuring words. When we’re done, and a little comfort’s been shared, we put down the phone and feel a little more at home with ourselves. We are reminded of who we really are and what we have to offer one another.”

- by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

 

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in the Rough

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say,

"I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

- By, Ann Landers

 

[becvan]

A prayer

Best Prayer I Have Heard In A Long Time...for me I think it is the best one I have ever heard


Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.


Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.


Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.


Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.


Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love. Matt 5:44


Working for God on earth doesn't pay much.. . ..but His retirement plan is out of this world.

*author unknown*

 

[tude]

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

 

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in the Rough

Together We Can Make It
(Celebrating Life)
Luciano deCrescenzo

"We are all like one-winged angels. It's only when we help each other that we can fly."

 

[goingonhope]

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Annual Checkup
(Young at Heart)
Erma Bombeck

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants are dead."

 

[goingonhope]

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You Can Do It!
(Live Your Dreams)
Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

 

[goingonhope]

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Goodwill
(On Choices)
Lillian Hellman

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

 

[goingonhope]

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Self-Esteem
(Finding Emotional Fulfillment)
Claire Safran

"It's the courage to act, even if you may fail, even if you may humiliate yourself all over again."


The real disservice, to others and oneself, is simply to do nothing.

 

[goingonhope]

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"The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it."

Moliére

 

[goingonhope]

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Perspective
(A Matter of Perspective)


"We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without."


- Immanuel Kant

 

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in the Rough

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

- Plato

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After the verb "to love," "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world."

- Bertha Von Suttner

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"The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood."

- Decartes

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There isn't much that I can do,
But I can share an hour with you,
And I can share a joke with you. . . .
As on our way we go.

- Maude V. Preston

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"Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections; some literally give their blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

- Barbara Bush

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"I have known it for a long time but now I have experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach."

- Hermann Hesse

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"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."

- Willa Cather

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"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."

- Louisa May Alcott

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"Love is something eternal."

- Vincent van Gogh

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Let's see 9 quotes. Could they all be Diamonds? :rolleyes:..kidding. Really, I don't know. Just wanted to mix things up a bit here and do things a little different.