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
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Author Unknown
Dr. Seuss.
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf
Old friends are gold ! New friends are diamond ! If you get a diamond, don’t forget the gold ! Because to hold a diamond, you always need a base of gold !
Life is all about how you look at it……is the glass half empty or half full? To me, if there is even a little something in my ‘life’ glass, then I am going to drink it up and consider myself blessed that I got a drop of it!
My husband is well known at church as appreciating southern cooking – any and everyones cooking. His famous line is ” The worst he ever had was delicious”. That comes from a man that will eat whatever I put in front of him and really appreciate it.
Alice, I have a husband just like yours. Never turns his nose up at anything. He’s just grateful someone will cook for him. It doesn’t matter what is on the plate I hand him he always has the same response, “Um, yum, thank you!”
It’s old, and may sound somewhat cliche, but nevertheless, it is very true, “Pretty is as pretty does.”
I have met some people in my lifetime who are physically beautiful or handsome and are just ugly on the inside. I have met also people who may not be as physically attractive, but who are beautiful from the inside out.
True and lasting beauty comes from having a beautiful soul no matter what its wrapping is.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in your fruit salad.