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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 04 2014 : 06:23:35 AM
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Have a happy Fourth of July!
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
Edited by - Cindy Lou on Jul 04 2014 06:24:13 AM |
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
6717 Posts
Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2014 : 8:17:57 PM
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" It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2014 : 11:43:14 AM
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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2014 : 12:04:53 PM
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"It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought." James Douglas
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 06 2014 : 2:51:28 PM
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Marly,
That garden quote makes me want to get out there this evening!
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 07 2014 : 10:10:12 AM
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"The giving of love is an education in itself."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2014 : 8:59:32 PM
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"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
Max Frisch
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2014 : 11:03:53 AM
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"Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield."
Price Cobb
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 11 2014 : 7:18:07 PM
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2014 : 7:37:34 PM
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Jean Paul
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
2914 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2014 : 8:06:11 PM
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This quote sums up my feelings about writing stories:
"We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious."--Brenda Ueland
Cindy
"Come by the hills to the land where fancy is free; And stand where the peaks meet the sky and the rocks reach the sea.Where the rivers run clear and the bracken is gold in the sun. and cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done"--Loreena McKennit
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
Visit my blog at http://www.farmerinthebelle.blogspot.com/ |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 14 2014 : 6:06:42 PM
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Cindy, how true! It is a lot easier to start something that isn't truly important to us!
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
2914 Posts |
Posted - Jul 15 2014 : 5:42:41 PM
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I saw this variation on the Serenity Prayer:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change, courage to change the person I can, and the wisdom to know that's me".
Cindy
"Come by the hills to the land where fancy is free; And stand where the peaks meet the sky and the rocks reach the sea.Where the rivers run clear and the bracken is gold in the sun. and cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done"--Loreena McKennit
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
Visit my blog at http://www.farmerinthebelle.blogspot.com/ |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 16 2014 : 2:29:28 PM
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable". Dave Tyson Gentry
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2014 : 8:35:08 PM
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Seen on a t-shirt.
"Noah didn't wait for his ship to come in, he built it."
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2014 : 09:12:04 AM
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"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."
Marlo Thomas
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 20 2014 : 12:14:48 AM
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"Year by year, the complexities of the spinning world grow more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities."
Woman's Home Companion, December 1935
It's funny, to me,how each age sees itself as beset by new changes and problems.
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2014 : 11:59:59 AM
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"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever." Leo Buscaglia
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2014 : 2:16:43 PM
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Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
Edited by - Cindy Lou on Jul 21 2014 2:17:25 PM |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 24 2014 : 08:25:42 AM
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"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2014 : 11:40:40 AM
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"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2014 : 3:31:35 PM
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." Herman Melville
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2014 : 7:03:00 PM
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"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
Michael Pollan
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
2325 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2014 : 8:36:09 PM
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"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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