When the truth suffers, so do we all.
I hear you;
but, I'm not listening.
"Treat a cold and it lasts about seven days; ignore it, and it lasts about a week."
As the old saying goes . . .
"As you go through life, make this your goal:
Keep your eye on the doughnut and not the hole."
"Hear blessings dropping their blossoms all around you." Rumi
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. ~Rumi
Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.~ Rumi
"The truth is always eloquent"
"We hate those who force us to lie"
'If you don't know your options, then you don't have any."
"I AM a being of violet fire! I AM the purity God desires!" (x)
Mumble,
grumble,
pussycat stumble.
"Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps".
"A person ain't worth much if he can't keep his word."
"People remember more about how you make them feel than what you did."
"It's often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it."
Doing the right thing may not always feel great; but, it feels better than doing the wrong thing.
I'm a working man when there's nothing better to do.
Quint Asper
One can do most anything, but not everything
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Myths are a necessary manifestation of hope in a flawed world.
"Try loving the ONE who loves you."
When you're not honest with your heart, the pain you feel is your answer.
You can't worry about every little detail in life, or else you'd just plain give up.
Don’t give advice to people who don’t ask for it.
A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
I don't know what I don't know.
Live and learn.
Experience is what makes one's mistakes seem so familiar.
A bore is a person who talks when he should be listening.
They stick as close together as a bunch of hillbilly cousins.
Wit has truth in it;
Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Hard work will take the edge off of worry any day.
You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. – Anne LaMott
Life can be hard; and it doesn't necessarily get any easier with age.
Ass/u/me / assumptions can easily make an ass out of u and me.
....just might be the exception that proves the rule.
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
Breathe deep and move with awareness of self and of others.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Action is the antidote to despair.
[inertia and stagnation is the opposite of movement and change]
It's better to accept your fate and receive guidance than to fight it and receive none.
I want you to be happy, too -- just not enough to do anything about it.
Sheldon Cooper
People change -- for the better; for the worse -- but people do change.
Being long in pride and short on brains is a bad combination.
... like watching a 3-D movie without the special glasses!
It takes a while to sink in.
... so bull headed stubborn that they can't listen to reason.
There was never a horse that couldn't be rode. Never a man that couldn't be throwed.
....slicker 'n owl shit.
... as stubborn as a Missouri mule.
Time doesn't go anywhere. It just is.
What is 'is'. What ain't 'ain't.
I'll look for you when I see you coming.
No news is most often good news.
Let's not be hanging a claw into one another now...
Let's not & just say we did.
Maybe yes;
maybe no --
I just don't know.
Here I sit all broken hearted;
Tried to shit but only farted.
Just because life ain't always easy doesn't mean that it's always overly difficult either.
~
In life, you’re first given an opportunity to make things right. If
you don’t, it becomes a challenge; and, then it finally it becomes a
crisis.~
If he had a conscience, his life wouldn't be worth living.
He's the south end of a north bound mule.
They
can go fuck themselves AND the horse they rode in on (as you gesture
with your little finger of the left hand jabbing upwards in the air).
They're treating me like a frothy dog.
Well beat the drums and sound the brass if there don't go one big horse's ass.
He's only got one oar in the water.
Sometimes two half wits do almost make a whole wit.
It'd take two of him to make a half wit.
I like my job. It's the work I hate.
Everything I like is either improper, illegal or fattening.
I'll look for you when I see you coming.
I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
There's nothing more relaxing than watching somebody else work.
Sometimes you eat just to keep from getting hungry.
A hungry man cannot feed another.
You can't fed a man who doesn't know he's hungry.
Who ever heard of a revolution of fat men.
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "I will try again tomorrow".
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Count not the money not yet in your hand.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Mumble, grumble, pussycat stumble.
The only people you should get even with are those who have helped you.
Don't get mad, get even.
Kitty says to Matt Dillon:
Why, you are suspicious of everyone!
Matt's reply: Yeah. That's why I'm still alive.
He
acts like he got hit in the head by a bolt of lightning so that even
when he's standing still, he looks like he's scooting sideways.
Chester Goode
They act like they've got an itch that they can't scratch.....
.... Like they can't get to.
.....like they can't scratch in public.
Most folks can be trusted up to a point, but it's still best not to put temptation in their way.
Hook, Line and Sinker
Lock, stock, and barrel
For sure and certain, he's as tough as old hickory.
