Let’s break up the work week.
Share one of your favorite quotes with us. It could be from a movie, poem, song or even something you wrote.
I’ll start with one I wrote earlier on my Twitter page:
“Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become”
Your turn
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Christine Macdonald is a Los Angeles based author from the island of O’ahu.
Through her writing she uses her voice, a unique blend of cutting truth and self-deprecating humor to inspire others to release their shame and tell their story.
She is public about her struggles with clinical depression and PTSD from childhood abuse.
Her forthcoming book of essays about surviving addiction and a career in the sex industry will be published in 2020.
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"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."
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Love that! Thank you for commenting! 🙂
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let's see.Scorpio women are wonderful!
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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” ` Dr. Seuss
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~ Marilyn Monroe
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I've actually written an essay on this quote, because it absolutely describes my life:"I slept, and dreamed that life was joy.I woke, and saw that life was duty.I acted, and behold! Duty was joy."~Rabinirath Tagore
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Kindness is like a smile. It's easy to give, and free to get. But it's power to change someone's day is awesome.
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Mess with the bull and you get the horns – from the movie Some Kind of WonderfulI am agog with disinterest – a sarcastic funny one that I heard on TVLife's too short to wear ugly shoes!
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you." ~Lewis B. SmedesThis is a recent favorite of mine…and in my experience, how true!
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Here is a wee simple one from a weird movieWhen life gets you down, you have to just keep on keeping on.Joe Dirt…
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women should be like that..
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If you really want to do something, you'll find a ay. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.-Anonymous
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"If you cant be a good example – then you simply have to be a dreadful warning" – My sister to her daughter.
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"Fortune sides with those who dare." Virgil
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."…Calvin Coolidge
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If you don't do what you're supposed to do, you'll do what you know how to do.– Mary T.Chris said pretty much the same thing.
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"Time conquers us all, patience makes us unique".
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When my family are doing something wonderful, and it can be playing tennis, or eating fish and chips in the park, we say "It can't get any better than this"…this is our family motto..xCan you spare a vote for me here..http://www.babble.com/babble-50/mommy-bloggers/nominate-a-blogger/Page 1 atm..I'd so appreciate it xxx
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety" (Wordsworth)
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