Diamonds In The Rough

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in The Rough

Where Might I Search?


"Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way."

Ralph Crawshaw

 

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in The Rough

How Do Our Kids Know?

"The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved."

Stephanie Marston

 

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in The Rough

"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope"
Josh Billings

"As my success has grown, I've really learned who my true friends are."
Jamie-Lynn Sigler

 

[Deleted member 5760]

'If a problem can be solved, there is no use worrying about it. If it cannot be solved, worrying will do no good'
Buddhist mantra

 

[Deleted member 5760]

By the way - I'm not a buddhist. I just thought it spoke for a lot of common sense.

 

[goingonhope]

"I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life — even when it's a kick in the teeth."

Polly Adler

 

[goingonhope]

"Yes ma'am, no ma'am,
Thank you ma'am, please.
Open up the turkey's butt
And fork out the peas."

Facetious Thanksgiving grace
—The Folklore of American Holidays

 

[goingonhope]

Resiliency
African Proverb

"The wind does not break a tree that bends."

 

[shadowchaser]

"Purple squirrel stole my nuts"

my cousin Jane.

Amazing how she can get me laughing even at my worst. I put this in the quotes as I have repeated it to many people during hard times to chear them up.

 

[goingonhope]

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame,
in diet, and in the cause and preventions of disease.

Thomas A. Edison

 

[Froggie]

This is an amazing thread, really love reading all these proverbs ... they are "food for the heart, soul and the mind" ... true gratitude to all those who share these "diamonds"

 

[goingonhope]

Diamonds in The Rough

Self-Talk
(On What We Shape)
Jennifer Rothschild

"The truth is, our self talk actually begins to shape the life we live, affecting our very destiny. What you think and say to yourself will impact the texture, color, and music of your life."