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
“You can’t belong to someone else until you belong to yourself.” – Pearl Bailey
“If you can’t change the people around you – change the people you are around”
“When a person tries to show you who they are – let them. You will be better off in the end.” – my momma Ms. Linda
“Jesus be a biscuit” – my daughter Aspen
I read this on a church sign; Life got you all wrinkled? Come in for a FAITH lift!
My personal motto is this little addage that come from who knows where:
“Happiness is homemade”
And because I Iove Jane Austen:
“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
The Good Lord made us all. If we’s good enough for Him, we sure ought to be good enough for each other. –Jed Clampett
Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. –Unknown
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” – Charlotte Brontë
“The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.” ~Pinterest
“Pretty is as pretty does.”
Those were words of wisdom from my Gramma Hatch–I heard them my entire life growing up, my children heard them from me when they were growing up, and now my grandchildren are hearing them from me, too, their Grammy!