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Across the Fence:  Words to live by....  |
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celebrate2727
True Blue Farmgirl
989 Posts
Beth
MJF
Farmgirl
989 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 10:42:38 AM
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As life's journey goes along what words or phrases have you learned to live by?
My 2 new favorites are:
I don't do anything for anyone who asks me like that. (Used this on my 4 year old and it worked)
If he knew better, he'd do better. Doesn't excuse behavior but explains it when dealing with mental illness in the family.
My son's football coach always says " Keep a smile on your face, a chip on your shoulder and a skip in your step.
But the one thing I guess I have always believed-
Show kindness, even to your enemies.
blessings
beth
Dreaming of Friday Night Lights
http://blissnblossomfarm.etsy.com
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JenniferJuniper
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Jennifer
New Hampshire
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 10:57:26 AM
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| To paraphrase Mother Theresa: we can do no great things, only small things with great love. |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 11:37:14 AM
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The phrases I remember most growing up are: Be tough, Babygirl and
Do what your told, when your told, with a happy on your face.
I find myself using the "be tough" with my own children, but my work words are a bit diffent. At my house little workers are reminded to Do everthing quickly, cheerfuly, and properly.Trina
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 |
Edited by - BarefootGoatGirl on Dec 19 2006 11:39:58 AM |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 11:57:55 AM
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I always remember my dad saying to me, "Jon-Carol, use your head for more than something to put your hat on!",
Great grandmother Dodie always said to me, "Anything those boys can do, you can do better, anyhow.",(about my mean boy cousins who wouldn't let me play). After I stopped dancing as a ballerina, I took a job in the very BOYS CLUB oriented financial world. That always stuck with me!
Three generations of women (mom, grandma and ggrandma) used "get outside and get the stink blown off ya!" when they couldn't understand why a kid would be inside on such a gorgeous day. No video games or sitting around watching tv for me! I use it on my husband, my clan and my niece and nephew, too.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 12:05:15 PM
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I remember "Chase your dreams" and have tried to instill that in my daughters by raising them to believe they can have anything they want in life IF they are willing to work for it.
Di
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Lavender Cottage
True Blue Farmgirl
273 Posts
Ellen
USA
273 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 12:35:17 PM
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These are all great-this one comes to mind for me:
Dream and then, make it happen!
Ellen in MI |
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momto6
True Blue Farmgirl
134 Posts
Valerie
Goltry
OK
USA
134 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 1:03:03 PM
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My 15 year old daughter has a favorite right now, and we all say it to her all the time: "Quitters quit"!!! 
Val |
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
2350 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 5:16:31 PM
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I like this. He who angers you controls you.
My deceased Dad use to say. Keep on the snny side.
My parents were from the farm country. Wytheville Va.
They really had some funny sayings . I can't seem to rememeber them all now. pinkroses |
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 10:49:09 PM
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My great-grandfather handed this one down to my grandmother, who passed it on to my mom, who still uses it on me when I get down in the mouth about something, or am just stewing around...
"Out of emotion and into motion."
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 05:56:52 AM
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My mother reminded me that Grandma Dodie said to her, "it's too far from your heart to hurt you." when she skinned a knee, or had the blues.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
2087 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 06:17:32 AM
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OOOO I think I'll have to add these in my lil quotes/inspiration journal:) I thrive on inspiration;) I like this one (it was on a lil rip off calendar) mum and I always use it when we have a rough day or someone is giving us trouble (when you are a good person people tend to want to sabotage you, you all know;) "Damn everything, but the circus" I think that says it all:) I always use "Don't compromise yourself you're all that you've got" and "...to thine ownself be true" I found a bracelet with that on it and I want it so bad but way too expensive! HUGS
"... to thine ownself be true." |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 06:26:30 AM
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CARRY HAPPINESS WITH YOU EVERYWHERE, ITS NOT THAT HEAVY.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
2087 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 4:28:34 PM
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nice one nancy jo!:)
"... to thine ownself be true." |
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ponyexpress
True Blue Farmgirl
320 Posts
Sandy
Kirkwood
Missouri
USA
320 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 8:01:14 PM
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I'm guilty of using this one as the kids got into the older, more challenging years:
Act your age, not your shoe size!
Sandy in Missouri |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 8:32:24 PM
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It's much easier to be happy than sad; choose happiness.
The sky's the limit!
Dream big dreams and make them happen.
"Well that's a fine how do you do!" (Gran)
If you plant trees, you are entitled to believe you will live forever". (from James Michener's Chesapeake)
You can be whatever you want to be and don't ever let anyone tell you you can't. (My Mom)
with a happy heart |
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EagleNest
True Blue Farmgirl
192 Posts
Mary
Yakima
WA
192 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 10:12:30 PM
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I just read Max Lucado's "Cure for the Common Life". One quote that had impact on me was, " Don't be so big you can do something small". I work with so many people who have the attitude that they are too important to do little things to help others. They love to give the orders but won't take the time or effort to help. Sorry for the sermon.
Mary
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Gal 5:22 |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2006 : 2:38:11 PM
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I like, "We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
And of course, my sister's words of advice, "You get more flies with honey, than you do with vinegar."
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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horse
True Blue Farmgirl
371 Posts
laura
pontotoc
mississippi
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2006 : 2:48:38 PM
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| Going to goat shows and barrel races I have often felt like the stock I brought wasn't the best. My husband, bless his heart, has always told me "wrung what you brung". A Mississippi saying that means to put your stock up against the other . |
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ponyexpress
True Blue Farmgirl
320 Posts
Sandy
Kirkwood
Missouri
USA
320 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 3:42:50 PM
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I remembered another one while my son was home for the holidays:
A mother's love goes with you, son, everywhere you know
Just be sure that you don't take it where it should not go!
Sandy in Missouri
I don't iron anymore. If I'm not wrinkle-free, why should my clothes be? |
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mommom
True Blue Farmgirl
854 Posts
Susan
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2006 : 08:59:00 AM
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| My favorite is: When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice!!!!!Susan |
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horse
True Blue Farmgirl
371 Posts
laura
pontotoc
mississippi
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2006 : 09:36:18 AM
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Here area a few of my favorite:
1. The one who brags will be the one who loses
2. People who do not knowlove do not know happiness.
3.A blind man in some ways is lucky, for he sees not the hate of the world he lives in.
4. Love is not of this earth because it knows no boundaries.
5. A rich man is never satisfied, while a poor man is happy for what he has.
6. An idle man is the devil's workshop.
7. Wrung what you brung.
Laura |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2006 : 12:37:32 PM
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| These are great, you guys! I also love 'never postpone joy'. I try not to think/rationalize 'yeah, I've got to give so and so a call', or some such excuse. We need to stop saying we'll try and just do it (apologies to Nike). CALL your mom, WRITE that note, SMELL those flowers, MAKE that new dish, VISIT your new neighbor, HUG your loved ones. That way we won't have to be sorry because the chance is gone one day. This is a great time for this thread. Gives me loads of inspiration to start my new year right! Love, Nance |
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
1045 Posts |
Posted - Dec 31 2006 : 04:41:12 AM
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These are great, ladies!
My dad always used to quote the philosopher James Allen: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Meaning, we become what we think about. If we think thoughts of success and achievement, of helpfulness and love, we become that. If we think negative whiney thoughts of self pity, we become that. It sums up a lot.
Laura, when you said "Wrung what you brung" it made me think of one we use when we show. We say "Ride your ride." Meaning, you can't ride the horse someone else brought, and you can't ride what you wish your horse would be; but you can ride what he is that day. So you work toward your own personal best, and have that be enough.
My dad also used to say "Did you plan to fail, or did you fail to plan?" Taught me to think ahead and anticipate how to head off problems.
I also love "Never postpone joy." That's a wonderful way to look at things.
I also like the speech the father Polonius gave to his son Laertes in Hamlet, where he told him "to thine self be true, for if thou wilst, thou cannot be false to any man." He also said "Neither a borrower or a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend." (I hope I did those right; it's from years old memory!) That whole advice speech just rocks!
There are so many just on the tip of my tongue that I can't remember the whole thing: like when W. Clement Moore said something about how when you think positively and with gratitude, the Universe will open doors where there once were walls. I like to live with gratitude; it makes for a happy heart and eyes open to possibilities.
Fun thread!
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