Daily Mood Quotes - February 26, 2012

Daily Mood Quote
Day 256 - February 26, 2012

"The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."
~Unknown Author

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
 ~Benjamin Franklin

How much and how many are overlooked due to lack of understanding, or the refusal to learn?

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Daily Mood Quotes - February 25, 2012

Daily Mood Quote
Day 255 - February 25, 2012

Peace is not something you wish for: It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away."
~Robert Fulghum

So why do we use violence, threats and control tactics to gain peace? Gandhi said, ""Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."

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Daily Mood Quotes - February 24, 2012

Daily Mood Quotes
Day 254 - February 24, 2012

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~James Russell Lowell

Patience is stronger than force.
~Edward Counsel

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Daily Mood Quotes - February 23, 2011

Daily Mood Quotes
Day 253 - February 23, 2012

"Lord make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy."
~St. Francis of Assisi

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Daily Mood Quotes - February 9, 2012

 

Daily Mood Quote

Day 252 – February 9, 2012

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.”

~Unknown Author

As my husband has recently noted, “I've been dancing my tushy off” the past couple of months, I'm happy to have such a good dance partner to go through life with. You see  “Life's a dance” as John Michael Montgomery says in his song, Life's A Dance, you really do learn as you go. You don't have a choice. Not true, you do have a choice.

To be perfectly upfront, I have struggled to find words to describe the dance life has put in front of me and my husband. Until yesterday, I was trying to remember the recipe for Chicken Noodle Hotdish (or casserole in other parts of the world), and found myself saying things like a dash of parenting, mixed with a few bills, no that's not right, more like; a dollop of teenage attitude and a “double dose” (thanks Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes in Little Fockers) of grad level homework...Wait a minute! I'm making hotdish here, “Recalculating!” (thank you Allstate Insurance. Those mayhem commercials have to be some of the funniest I've ever seen, so true to life...my life lately) and start over again. Then it hit me, the past several months have been a recipe. A recipe for “overwhelmed.” That's what I've been; overwhelmed. I'm sure I would have figured this out earlier, but when your in the middle of one of life's hurricanes, it's hard to get any perspective, or catch your breath in the heavy winds.

Well, I needed to step out of the storm for a bit and get my bearings. I've been turned and twisted so many ways lately, it took a while to clear my head. Sometimes the best thing we can do, is step back and look at the whole picture (you got to be honest about the picture), make changes as needed and continue on. The last couple months have included two deaths, very intense classes, financial strain (I know President Obama says, our economy is getting stronger and hundreds of thousands of jobs have been created. Let me tell you, not where I live, job creation is an “epic fail” here), parenting, cold weather and planning for the future, everything we call “everyday life.” Can't do much about the deaths but accept and continue on; the intense classes are kicking my hiney, some of the toughest studies I have had to date and my vision is an obstacle. I can understand the material, analyze it, communicate it and write about it, I am struggling to keep up with the reading. My husband reads to me a lot and I spend a lot of time reading the e-books on the computer, font size increased to 185%. Unfortunately, text book publishers don't make audio books for colleges. I'm entering my last couple of months of grad school and it is some of the hardest work I've ever done...at least until I start my PhD program. As far as financial strains, parenting, cold weather and planning for the future: As I said before, everyday life stuff. But, it just all popped up on us at once; like nasty weeds. All we can do is live it, live through it and pick through all the thorns and nettles one by one.

Sooo, we dance on and hope the tune changes for the better, or at least lets us slow dance until we catch our wind...

Hope will you dance through life's mayhem today?

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Daily Mood Quotes - February 8, 2012

 

Daily Mood Quote

Day 251 – February 8, 2012

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Today I checked my daily mood quotes e-mail and read several that asked me, “what is my mood today?” “when will the daily mood quote return?” and “are you all right?” I have also received many new notifications for followers on Twitter and Facebook.

I have to say, I was very surprised and did not realize how many read and look forward to the Daily Mood Quotes blog. The e-mails brought tears to my eyes. I want to say thank you to everyone who takes the time to read and I hope you have enjoyed the quotes and stories that are shared daily. Beginning tomorrow February 9, 2012, I will begin writing again (it is my passion) and the daily mood quote will again be daily. Thank you, I never realized how many people the Daily Mood Quote reaches.

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Deaily Mood Quotes - February 2, 2012

Daily Mood Quotes

Day 250 – February 2, 2012

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”

~Albert Einstein

“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”

~St. Francis of Assisi

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

~Mark Twain

“The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.”

~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

~George Bernard Shaw

The message is, what you choose to put out there, will most likely be returned to you; even though you may not recognize it at the time. As Hogarth Hughes (played by Eli Marienthal) in the movie The Iron Giant said to the Iron Giant (played by Vin Diesel), “ You are who you choose to be.” You get what you choose to give. Our examples are being watched everyday, everywhere, by everyone we interact with.

A mom's question: “So, how would you like it, if someone acted that way toward you?” Sooner or later they will.

What examples are you setting today? Are they worth being returned to you?

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