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
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“Truth, crushed to the earth, shall rise again.” ~ William Cullen Bryant
AMEN.
Whatever happens to ones life is in God’s hand. not ours. Praise him, he is the Almighty.
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
– Joe Paterno
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
– Gandhi
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
– Andy Warhol
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
Kevin Costner
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.and mahatma_gandhi.jpg
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Ghandi
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams,
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Courage is the ability to hang on just five minutes more.
Authors unknown [ to me anyway
]
“The task ahead of us is never greater than the power behind us”
“There are no problems, only opportunities”
I have this one right at the top of my blog – I hope that when people leave they leave with this very feeling!
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
~Mother Teresa
I also love this one.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
~Maya Angelou
Faith is not believing that God can, it’s knowing that He will.
The will of God will not lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
I’m not sure the author. I have these on plaques in my room!
You never stand alone when you stand with God.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.
~Norman Vincent Peal
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all!!!
“Be happy with what you got, because there is someone out there who doesnt have it”
(This is so true and we forget sometimes)
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
–Lao Tsu
This has been a very inspiring thread! Here are a few of my favorites:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead
“Do or do not… there is no try.” -Master Yoda
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.” – Mahatma Gandhi
The best and most beautiful things… must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
This is such a blessing! I have really enjoyed reading through some of these and I hope I am not repeating a quote someone else has already used ~grins~ But I find this one to be sooo true…
“Attitudes are contagious…make sure yours is worth catching!!” Anonymous
Well leave it to me to step on someone else’s toes!! Sorry Grannie K,I hadn’t read all the posts earlier and missed seeing yours! Have a blessed day
Hey, it’s good enough to repeat!!! Thanks!
Happiness isn’t something that you wake up one morning and find out that it’s happened to you… its a daily choice that you have to make.
God’s clock keeps perfect time… even if we don’t agree with it!
And one from my perfectly Southern grandmommy…
Pretty is only as pretty does!
Christy, this thread is AWESOME!!
You know I can’t do anything without doing it ALL the way, lady, hehehe.
Here’s a few of mine I like to share. They’ll be on the upcoming site, but heck… why wait, yeah? 
“Never underestimate the power of a loving vision you hold for another. What you see, in that moment, the Universe sees too.”
“It won’t matter how many loving, giving people surround you, eager to help you reach your wildest dreams, if you are not letting yourself be in a position to receive their gifts. Allow, allow, allow!”
“If you knew everyone in your life, even the “difficult” ones, were in your life specifically because you asked them to be there, and moreso, they asked you to be there in yours… would you still sweat those annoying folks?”
“There is no such thing as “positive” or “negative” vibrations. There is only the presence of, or absence of, well being. How do you know the difference? When you are connected to your well being, you feel good. When it’s absent, you feel terrible. Seek always to claim the well being that is your birthright.”
“There is NO guidance wiser, more brilliant, more precise and always accessible to you than your OWN inner being. One thing though – you DO have to use it”!
“Celebrate your small successes now, with joy and passion. Then don’t be surprised when the big successes start rolling in (and they will!).”
“When inspired to new ideas, dear heart, don’t ask yourself, “why me?” Ask yourself, “Why NOT?” DARE to be your own miracle!”
“Well being is yours naturally! All you are doing, from day to glorious day, is coming into alignment with that natural well being. When you are in alignment… you feel good!”
“How would you feel, right this moment, if you suddenly got what you most dearly wanted in your life? Feel it? Good! Now you know it is on its way!”
“Not everyone will always agree with you, nor should you want them to. That is just part of the nature of “contrast”. Luckily, you need no one’s permission to BE you. Aren’t you glad of that??”
“Inspiration is the Universe’s way of letting you know, in no uncertain terms, that no one can manifest the action, to which you’re being called, quite the same way you can. Believe it!”
“If only you could see just how BIG, how POWERFUL, how AWESOME you really are when held in comparison to all of your so-called “problems”? You would joyfully find that you have no “problems”; just lots of opportunities and plenty of laughter.”
(all quotes courtesy of Jessica Smith, Storykraft Kreative)
Love, love, LOVE ya gal! You will always be a rockstar in my eyes.
-Jessie
Storykraft Kreative
My daughters favorite saying. (She a junior in High School and I’m sure that we all can remember how tough those years could be!)
High School is only the 2nd inning in life, there are still 7 more innings to go.
Another saying that we love and my kids have heard it since the day they were born.
Friends will come and go. But your Family will always bee there. Make your family your best friends.
And this one is just funny, It always makes us laugh.
Family is like fudge. Mostly sweet, with the occasional nut. ;D
Whenever I encounter someone that is just wishing their lives away and not living in the present, I usually think and sometimes say,
“I wish Cotton was a monkey” —
attributed to the “Our Gang” tv program that we watched, religiously, as children
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus
My favorite which speaks to experience…
The years have taught me what the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go to http://www.simpletruths.com and watch some of their videos and read some of their excerpts. More truth quotes than you can imagine. I have half the collection now and love these little books.Just tell them grandmapig sent you!
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Love this one.
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor in the morning the devil says “oh crap shes up again”
Be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
Author unknown
This one made me smile and think of Southern Plate!!!
Country cookin’ makes ya good lookin’ !!! Paula Deen
To the World you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Anonymous
“Take care of your business, or your business will take care of you!”
-Emily Ann Selden
Came up with this today and didn’t want to lose it!
Don’t sweat the petty stuff and don’t pet the sweaty stuff.
It is better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Some drink from the Fountain of Knowledge, others gargle.
Kissin don’t last, but good cookin do!
True joy is an addition to one that does not require subtraction from someone else.
From Nathan Bryce on twitter.
“He has the most who is most content with the least.” ~ Diogenes, an ancient Greek philosopher
My high school principal has said this quote at every graduation he’s presided over…I love it:
“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
I also love this page, it’s been a great place to come in the morning to get that extra boost in the morning (or whenever I need it)
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”-Harriet Van Horne
I actually painted this on my kitchen wall.
This is one of my favorite sayings!
Believe in God and you’ll believe in miracles;
believe in His Son and you’ll experience one!
I didn’t see this one posted on this blog yet, but it’s a quote while attending Ala-Non 10 years ago that still sticks with me on a daily basis.
“Let Go and Let God”
Linda in Louisiana
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”
- Dr. Seuss
live today like you want tomorrow to be
I like this thought—-GOD is with you. Only four little words but you certainly don’t need say anything more. Just believe.
Speak when you are angry and you”ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret….Lawrence J. Peter
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and leave the rest to God.
My Rheumatologist told me…….
Your attitude can make your life bitter, or better
“If you caint say sumpin nice, dont say nuthin at all ”
from the Walt Disney movie Bambi
” If you caint say somethin nice……….come sit by me !!! ”
my friend Gail has this cross-stitched and framed in her kitchen.
Once the two of us got the giggles at a memorial service for a good friend who passed away suddenly.We were shaking the pew,we were giggling that hard. We were trying so hard to stop, but just couldn’t stop. It was awful!! Other friends were leaning forward and peering down the pew to see what was going on. Of course that made it worse. One friend passed us a handwritten note that said “You two behave !!” By that time we were wheezing and crying into kleenex. But,you know…… our friend would have LOVED knowing that at her memorial service, we laughed !!
As I am ruler over a house of wit and sarcasm (equally at times)the saying around here goes like this:
“Don’t throw it if you can’t catch it!”
You need 3 things in life: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Author Unknown
Even a broken clock is right twice a day! Author unknown
You can’t be hung for thinking – it’s when you spit it out of your mouth that you’re in trouble!!
To the world, you are one person, to one person, you are the world.
I crossstiched a little flower pot for my Granny when I was young that simply said
“Bloom where you are planted”.
It hung proudly in her home until she passed away several years ago. Now it hangs in my home. It continually reminds me to be a Light wherever I am and to whomever I am around.
Don’t forget in the Darkness, what you learned in the Light.
-Joseph Bayly
When life gives you lemons, put them in your sweet tea and thank god your a Southern Belle!
I saw this on a t-shirt and it immediately reminded me of you!
http://www.southernbellestore.com/Sweet_Tea_p/sb131.htm