Quotes We Love

The Mermaids love words of wisdom from others. On this page we are displaying quotes; most are inspiring, some are funny, some just make you think. 

If you have a favorite that you would like to share, email us at mermaids@mermaidsofthelake.com  and we will list it with a link to your site. Enjoy and...

"Dive Right In!" ~The Mermaids

• "Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you!" Submitted by Cindy Brown

• "Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln Submitted by Michelle Williams, owner of Juicy Berry Lip Gloss.

~The next eight quotes were sent to us by a reader named Cindy. Cindy's 18 1/2 year old daughter, Meg was killed in a car accident four years ago. Cindy and Meg used to have what they called, "Saying Jars" and would exchange beautiful words. It is a link that they still have. Aren't words amazing? They transend time and space. That is why it is so very important to use them wisely.

Here is a Myspace site set up in Meg's honor - Very touching.

In Honor of Meg...

• We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn it is God who is shaking them.
• I know God won't give me any more than I can handle - I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
• Carrying a grudge is like letting someone live rent free in your head.
• A life that touches others goes on forever
• Children need your presence more than your presents.
• All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
• "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one. Helen Keller is the other." ~Erma Bombeck
• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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• "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change." ~Wayne Dyer

• "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one when he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso

• "Discipline is freedom." ~Jane Fonda

• "What's the point of black and white movies? You can't see the lipstick." ~ Gabbi

• "May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of you." ~ St. Theresa's Prayer

• "It is in the quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought." ~Napolean Hill and Clement Stone

• "Nothing happens until something moves." ~Albert Enstein

• "Why not go out on a limb? That is where the fruit is!" ~Mark Twain

• "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards." ~Benjamin Franklin

• "Deserve your dream." ~Octavio Paz

• "I dwell in possibility." ~Emily Dickinson

• "And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret to my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept." ~ Jean Cocteau

• "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." ~Nikos Kazantzakis

• "There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." ~Anonymous

• "Life is not mearured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away." ~Anonymous

• "Courage is not the towering oak, but the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." ~Anonymous

• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habbit." ~Aristotle

• "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." ~Martha Washington

• "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opionion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the greatest is he, who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Apology is a lovely perfume; It can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift." ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

• "Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much Love, not one." ~Fanny Fern

• "You have to give up the good to get the great." ~Kenny Rogers, Submitted by Ryan Alexeev

Comments

[Ryan Alexeev]

"You have to give up the good to get the great." ~Kenny Rogers

[Julie]

What a truly lovely collection!

[Cindy Adolph]

It is not the years in your life,
but the life in your years that counts.
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When you win, some of your character shows..
When you lose, all of your character shows.

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist,
but the ability to start over.

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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself -
The more energy you will have.
(Norman Vincent Peale)

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People don't stop laughing because they grow old -
They grow old because they stop laughing

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[cindy brown]

don't trouble trouble
'til trouble troubles you!

[Mermaid Jennifer]

TypePad HTML EmailCindy, thank you so much for taking a moment to leave us this quote. I will add it to our list, with a link to your blog! Appreciate it!

Mermaid Debbie