Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Most gas stations in the South have little change dishes by the register. If you’re paying for a transaction and need an extra penny or two, you simply take one from the dish. People then reciprocate this good turn by dropping a few coins in the dish from time to time, thereby creating a community bank of sorts, based on goodwill.
So in that spirit, this is Southern Plate’s “Give A Penny, Get A Penny” page.” I dearly love positive quotes and am always scouring the web for more so I thought this would be a great place to compile all of those. I’ll post mine, you post yours, and we can all “Give A Penny” when we have one and come back to “Get A Penny” when we need one.
I’ll also draw on these quotes to include at the bottom of my posts and emails that I send out to Southern Plate readers and be sure to credit the person who provided it, so include a link to your blog if you have one.
I would consider it a personal favor if you’d take the time to share a quote of motivation or positivity in the comments section below. Quote yourself, your Mama, someone famous, or our best friend “Anonymous”, it doesn’t matter, long as you drop your penny and then come back on one of those days when you feel like you might need one yourself.
Gratefully,
Christy
Some of my favorite quotes to start us off
“Pretend you’re a star and poke a hole in someone’s darkness”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Squeeze every bit of love you can out of life, and life will HUG you back like never before” ~Ticha from Facebook
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Apr 10 2009. Filed under Misc.
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I heard this one the other day ” you can’t measure taste with a spirit level”.
I like this one, “When a mother has to work she does violence to motherhood by depriving her children of her loving guidance and protection.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dump your garbage each day! Yesterday is over, let it go!
I have a lot of Health Problems so I live by this Quote…..”Live One Day At A Time”….I have no idea where the Quote came from.
“A hug is a great gift….
One size fits all.
It can be given for any occasion and it’s easy to exchange”
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Things in life are sometimes uncertain and we make choices everyday, sometimes hard ones. I’ve found that this quote has stood up for me thru thick and thin. “If you don’t know whether to do something or not, don’t do it.”
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Don’t drive into the future with your eyes in the rear view mirror.”
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never let the fear of getting wet keep you from dancing in the rain…
This is my favorite quote and one that I live by.
Tough times never last, but tough people do!
“Life is too serious to be taken so seriously!”
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Every Woman is a Super (Role) Model!
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Aspire to
Inspire before you
Expire Unknown
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything-they just make the best of everything they have. Unknown
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. — William Arthur Ward
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I love this quote by women’s fashion designer, Diane von Furstenberg:
“My best creation is my children.”
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I have two I ry to live by:
This, too, shall pass
Give your children roots and wings
When you break the cookie in half before you eat it, half the calories fall out onto the floor!
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I love this one and have it taped to my bulletin board at work:
‘If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.’
-from comedian Dave Barry
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
A day without a smile is a wasted day!
I am too young to be this old !!!!
Recipe for Happiness: Live with enthusiasm, smile for no reason, love without conditons, act with purpose, listen with your heart, and laugh often!
Today, one of my high school friends shared these two quotes with me. I have not heard them before and really like both of them so, I thought I would share!
Experience is the only teacher that gives the test first and the lesson later.
If you want to have what you have not, you must do what you do not.
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MAKE NEW FRIENDS BUT KEEP THE OLD
ONE IS SILVER THE OTHER IS GOLD
AND REMEMBER
THERE NO STRANGERS
JUST FRIENDS WE HAVE YET TO MEET
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. -anonymous
I make my own sunshine. It comes from within. The start of a day , is a start of a new me. Author Unknown
AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE CREATES BLESSINGS!
A BALANCED DIET IS CHOCOLATE IN BOTH HANDS!
NOT REALLY A QUOTE,BUT A BIT OF HUMOR:
The dining room table has a vinyl cloth
we’re using paper napkins,
My husband just doesn”t keep house
according to my mother”s standards
Grudges are like babies the more you nurse them the bigger they get.
“Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”~Dale Carnegie
I do not know who this belongs to, but I came across it years ago and it has always made me smile. Hope everyone enjoys!!
I wish I was a glowworm, cuz a glowworm’s never glum. How could you be gloomy when a light shines out your bum.
You can’t worry and trust God at the same time.
“Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his
opportunities – and an optimist is one who makes
opportunities of his difficulties.
~Harry Truman
How can you say there are too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
We should believe that when you treat people as they are, they will remain as they are, but when you treat them as they could be, they become what they should be!!!
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everthing they have”.
“Don’t cry because it’s over – smile because it happened”