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 from 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
“The balls of sight are so formed, that one man’s eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.” – Samuel Johnson
There comes a time in life when you walk away from all of the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus on the good. Life is too short to be anything but happy!
Unknown
One of my high school teachers told us:
“It’s better to prepare and prevent than to have to repair and repent.”
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.”
(Emily Post… ???)
“The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart.”
Helen Keller
dont trust a skinny cook
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung, “On the Psychology of the Unconciousness”, 1917
I don’t know where I saw this a few months ago; possibly from your blog, Christy, but so thought-provoking. “It’s easier to leave angry words unspoken, than to mend a heart those words have broken.”