Mod is SO SORRY, but she's in school and this semester has been insanely busy. Please don't forget that you can drop any prompt requests/suggestions here. ;)

1. Quotes1) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need ( Read more... )

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1) “Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well…” - Sir John Mortimer

2) “The only way ( Read more... )

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1) “New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.” --Hamilton Wright Mabie

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1) “Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.” --Jim Rohn

2) “Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.” --Fanny Crosby

3) “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is ( Read more... )

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1) “Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.” --Charles W. Eliot

2) “Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when ( Read more... )

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1) “There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” --Percy Bysshe Shelley

2) “Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen ( Read more... )

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1) “The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” -Tom Bodett

2) “The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.” -Josh Billings

3) “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when ( Read more... )

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1) “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.” --Sir Winston Churchill

2) “It wasn't the ( Read more... )

The mod added a new category for this month: LISTS. Mainly because so many of the list comms seem to have died out, so, why not?

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1) “A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.” --Phillips Brooks

2) “The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What ( Read more... )

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1) “Walk in the rain, jump in mud puddles, collect rocks, rainbows and roses, smell flowers, blow bubbles, stop along the way, build sandcastles, say hello to everyone, go barefoot, go on adventures, act silly, fly kites, have a merry heart, talk with animals, sing in the shower, read childrens' books, take bubble baths, get new sneakers, ( Read more... )