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You Said It: ‘Happy Is Such a Good Thing’ and More Quotes of the Week
By Becky Harris
Holiday prep and New Year’s plans have been filling our time at home this week
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You Said It: ‘Yikes, Tough Crowd’ and Other Quotes of the Week
By Becky Harris
Some of our favorite quotes this week came straight from the Comments section. See the stories and have your own say
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You Said It: Memorable Quotes Around Houzz This Week
By Becky Harris
Share in the design advice, analogies and statements from the Houzz community that have struck a chord
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Change is an ocean voyage in a leaky boat with a mutinous crew.
“Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent."
--Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950; Walt Kelly Pogo
Don Meredith (quarter back for the Dallas cowboys) If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?
"If all else fails, read the directions".
Be you, the world will adjust.
"When you can be anything you want, be kind."
"Be thankful for what you have, youl'll end up having more...."
or..
"Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
Oprah W.
"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on "
Theodore Roosevelt
One I actually live by.......Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good. I am not a worrier.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill
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never squat with your spurs on!
My favorite: "The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcell Proust (although there is much debate as to the actual wording)
Or--my own original motto: "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing".
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." —William Penn
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight; Phyllis Diller
By putting others down, we never go up.
"If God had intended us to touch our toes He would have put diamonds on the floor." Joan Rivers
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety per cent how you respond to it. --Lou Holtz
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a mouth full of water.
--my Uncle Freddie [Ed]
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
--Naguib Mahfouz; Egyptian novelist
They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
My yoga teacher said this many years ago, I don’t know the original source.
Jas--love Lou Holtz--wise man!
If wishes were horses, we'd have a stampede.
......Me
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
--William Arthur Ward
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
--Will Rogers
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean Paul Sartre.
This one always strikes me as very true!
If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. But if you tell a lie, it becomes a part of your future.
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
--Benjamin Disraeli
"Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, & loved more than you will ever know." Quote from Winnie the Pooh
"Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace."
Nikki Rowe
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." ---C.S. Lewis
“Just because someone says it, doesn’t make it so.”
”Self praise is no recommendation.”