I will be adding quotes here as they come along. If you enjoy collecting quotes, please leave me a comment containing your favorites. Thank you, in advance. (New quotes are at the top.)
Every “yes” has a cost that a wise person must weigh.
Sara Mae
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
"A common barrier to minimalism is the compulsion to plan, stock up, or own things “just in case.” When we’re decluttering, we’re often paralyzed by the fear that we’ll find a need tomorrow for what we throw out today."
http://www.missminimalist.com/
“Live simply, so that others may simply live.” -Mother Teresa
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant; and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success….” (Mrs. March in Little Women)
"God knows the feelings of discouragement, inadequacy, and failure which conscientious parents feel. But it was His idea to make them parents and to give them this particular set of children. He knew they would not do a perfect job. He is Father to the parents, and promises every kind of help they need. He stands beside them in every situation, ready to give wisdom as needed and grace to help in time of need if only they will turn to Him and ask for it. He teaches them (see 1 Cor. 13) how to love these children." The Shaping of a Christian Family by Elisabeth Elliot, page 146.
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." By Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God."
J.H. Taylor
"Never be indoors when you can rightly be without." ~ Charlotte Mason
J.H. Taylor
"Never be indoors when you can rightly be without." ~ Charlotte Mason
Jane Austen ~ "There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort...."
“If you don’t like what you’re doing, change it. If you’re not going to change it, stop complaining.”
Unknown
“As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that the things that are truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder, in a letter to the Pomona Public Library in Pomona, CA, where a room is named in her honor.
It's better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it. Joyce Meyer
"Everyday we need something to do, something to love, something worthwhile to think about." Karen Andreola, Pocketfull of Pinecones
"Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without." Unknown Author, sage advice though.
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, and dinner like a pauper." Unknown Author
"What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and acept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live past the grave in this world - the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Dig into the books, and before long you wil hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours." Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
"Few joys rival being outside on a beautiful day in the company of a good book." Oprah (Don't judge me. I happen to agree with what she says about books! (hee,hee))
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." Julia Child ( I might change steak to cake to bake.)
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "What's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing,: he said. -- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction"-- George Lorimer
“Don’t have your concert first and tune your instrument afterward. Begin your day with God.” ~J. Hudson Taylor
"The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places." A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter, page 233
"...my highest aspiration is to be a clean, thrifty housekeeper, a bountiful cook, a faithful wife, a sympathetic mother. That is life work for any woman, and to be a good woman is the greatest thing on earth... To be a good wife and mother is the end toward which I aspire. To hold the respect and love of my husband is the greatest object of my life." from Laddie by Gene Stratton-Porter, page 289
"I wish you would tell me just how you have gone about schooling your children. By educating ourselves before their coming, and with them afterward. Self-control, study, work, joy of life, satisfaction with what we have had, never-ending strife to go higher, and to do better...and afterward, you are in the groove in which you want your children to run." from Laddie by Gene Stratton-Porter, page 289
"It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“But the true idea of a home is that it is a place for growth. It is a place for the parents themselves to grow—to grow into beauty of character, to grow in refinement, in knowledge, in strength, in wisdom, in patience, gentleness, kindliness, and all the Christian graces and virtues. It is a place for children to grow—to grow into physical vigor and health and to be trained in all that shall make them true and noble men and women.
- J.R. Miller, The Family
"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Just think
You’re here not by chance,
But by God’s choosing.
His hand
Formed you
And made you the person you are.
He compares you to no one else-
You are
One of a kind.
You lack nothing
That His grace can’t give you.
He has allowed you to be here
at this time in history
To fulfill
His special purpose
For this generation.
ROY LESSIN
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My boys just said,"We've never been to school. We're organic! Moo!" (oh how they crack me up!)
“... think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
—Anne Frank
"The abilty to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may "speak."
Hans Hoffman (1880-1966)
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. – Alexander Patterson
“Is there any challenge in your life right now that is large enough that you have no hope of doing it apart from God’s help? If not, consider the possibility that you are seriously under challenged.”~John Ortberg
"Surrender your cares to the cool breeze, and let the white noise of everyday life give way to the call of birds."
May 2010 Southern Living pg. 15
