The Quote Collection

 I collect quotes and then I don't know what to do with them.  

Today is Friday and since it is still cold weather Jim is not working in the formal way that is the usual 10 hour days on Monday through Thursday.  However, since everyone else concerned with utilities 

work 5 days a week and sometimes 6 or 7, he has a few things pertaining to work today. 

He has to meet a couple of people that mean more work in the coming days and months.

We've had more snow this winter than we had the last two years with some rain as well.  We have been on a see-saw with the weather as well, having a week of zero-hugging days, then another week above freezing.  While not all the cold weeks were that cold, the fluctuation made for some soggy days that made our subdivision roads, the end of our driveway, and the road to our home shop a mess of sloppy, rutted mess.  Then after a freeze again, we would bounce over ruts and into potholes. Jim got a couple of truck loads of concrete millings to use on our property and then a little leftover for some of the potholes. I haven't been out to see how it is working, but the end of the driveway looks like we won't be sinking when we drive out anymore.

And what does that have to do with quotations? Nothing actually.  I'm spending the morning tidying up some little tasks that are written on slips of paper piled by my daily to-do list and I found some quotes I saved and since I don't want to lose them, I'm going to add them here. 

As for the rest of all the writing. Since it is morning (or not very much past) and I still have most of my brains intact, I just like to write things. 

Do not judge someone's journey by the chapter you walked in on.

We are all part of a family, so by helping the family we are helping ourselves.

Maybe that's a gift of  a long marriage, that you give up a part of your individuality to be a part of another person and he gives his up to be a part of you.

-- Laura Kalpakian 

GH 2006 "The Key of Love"

Even the closest people to you don't need to hear your every thought on a subject.  These people are allowed to have opinions of their own. They can make decisions on their own. If they desire an outside opinion, you can give it, carefully.

Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat.

What can you do to make someone's life easier today?

Hope in the Thing with Feathers

That perches in the soul

And since the tune without the words

And never stops at all.

--Emily Dickenson