It’s not the load that breaks you…. it’s the way you carry it. – Sandi Bachom
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these – that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need, that I will have left the earth a better place for what I’ve done and who I’ve been. - C. Hoppe
This beautiful face belongs to Ann Nixon Cooper. She is better known, I suppose, as the Oldest American Voter. The southern lady hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and is currently the one person I’d most want to sit down and talk with.
Not just because of the history that she has lived through and not just because of her longevity. Sure, I’d love to hear her first-hand accounts of the different Presidential terms she’s seen, the wars, the moments that shaped our nation and our world. And I would hang on her every word when she spoke of her favorite foods and drinks. Obviously the lady is onto something the experts only think they know.
After all, she’s outliving all of them!
The main reason I’d love to sit down and visit with her is her smile and her attitude. She exudes the warmth, strength, charm, and loveliness that you’d expect from a southern lady.
When asked about the secret to her longevity, Ann Nixon Cooper gave us our quote of the day: “Being Cheerful had a lot to do with it I’ve always been a happy person, a giggling person – a wide-mouthed person!”
Oh, I love her all right.
Photo Credit: The History Makers
Keep Calm and Carry On Art Print
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I use a marker board in our home office to write little motivational quotes, thoughts, facts, and affirmations on. Each member of my family walks by the board a couple of thousand times a day, so I want to make the trip worthwhile!
The words currently on the board are the same ones on this great art print: Keep Calm and Carry On.
I think this makes a perfect, perfect affirmation to keep in your pocket with you at all times. Whether you’re in class, at work, or in traffic (have mercy), this one’s a keeper.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. – Unknown
The thought of someone being lonely makes me incredibly sad. I can’t imagine how absolutely horrible loneliness must feel. Being an only child, you’d think I’d have some idea of lonely, but pets, friends, and family (not necessarily in that order!) more than made up for a shortage of siblings.
The quote above certainly doesn’t apply to everyone who’s lonely. After all, the elderly often find themselves alone simply because they’ve had the “good fortune” of outliving their friends and spouse. If they don’t have compassionate, loving family members nearby, their days must be unbearably long.
This quote has another group of people in mind. Those who have bickered, nitpicked, stirred up trouble, and sought out strife most of their life. The crowd who no one seems to ever be able to do enough for. The ones who want “this person” to be at odds with “that person” and everyone to hate the other one. After all, what better way to rise above the crowd than to have everyone hating one another. Right? Wrong.
Without realizing it, they’re putting up walls – closing everybody out, while shutting themselves inside, alone. It doesn’t take long before they find themselves so lonely that the things that once bothered them about these other people now seem so incredibly trivial. They wonder why they didn’t have sense enough to realize that the people in our lives are our greatest treasures. Houses, cars, boats, purses, jewelry, furniture – none of that matters. Not one of them hugs back or laughs at your jokes. I’ve never had one greet me at the back door when I’ve been away and tell me they’d just put a cup of coffee on. Not even my favorite purse.
We can all agree that the people in our lives are everything to us. But do we treat them that way? Do we try to foster harmony and happiness – with fat doses of humor thrown in? Do we put our own needs AFTER theirs? Do we tell them every chance we get that we love them so much it makes our head swim?
If you think you have so much as one wall in your life – tear it down today. It’d make a perfect spot for a bridge, don’t you think?
