Favorite Quotes

So, the topic of this week is post your top 5 favorite quotes so these are some of the ones I have found over the years.


1. Live with Passion
Tonya White gave me a plaque that reads this and I absolutely love it. We aren't here long...we might as well live with enthusiasm, devotion and fervor.

2. Dance like no one is Watching, Love like you've never been Hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And Live like it's Your Last Day on Earth
It would be so awesome to get out of bed every morning and remember this quote each and everyday. We aren't old yet but the last 20 years of my life have gone so fast so it's high time I start enjoying every moment I have left on this earth. I also like this because my dorky self is always dancing like a fool around the house and I sing as loud as I can in the house so I guess I have two more of these to really work on.

3. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody by Herbert Bayard Swope
This is perfect for me. Hays has been trying to tell me for years that not everyone on this earth is going to like me and I just couldn't understand that but now that I am a few years wiser, I completely get it. I will never, ever please everyone and I have got to learn to be okay with this. Do what I can, the best I can and that's all I can ask of myself.

4. When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. by Helen Keller
We have all heard the first part of this but I think the second sentence of the quote makes so much sense. Don't dwell on the unchangeable, go forward and find an open door...a bigger, badder door.

5. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. by C. S. Lewis
So incredibly true...I could continue to live without each one of you in my life but it would certainly make my life less fulfilling!! I love and miss each one of you!!!

And of course...
"You can try to poison the plaque, irradiate it or push it aside with stents, but it still remains inside the vessel. For decades, we've had to settle for treating the symptoms plaque creates, but now we have the opportunity to both treat the symptoms and address the problem."
John B. Simpson, PhD., M.D.
Foxhollow Founder and Chairman of the Board