Chèli's Shelves: Catchng up

New challenges are urging me to put some of my previous reviews out here so I will be copying them over from Librarything.

Favorite quotes

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

"books too, can broaden the mind, just like good wine.”

Do not resent growing old...many are denied the privilege.

When you are going through something hard and wonder where God is, remember the teacher is always quiet during the test.

Dear God, Before I ask for anything, I want to thank you for everything.

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley

"Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it."

"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held just ourselves and immortality." Emily Dickinson

"Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chianti in one hand - ice cream and cookies in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!!"

"Lord, you know there are many things you have given me for which I am grateful. Today is not one of them." Patricia Spinkle- When did we Lose Harriet?

"If God forbade drinking, would he have made wine so good?" Cardinal Richelieu

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." British philosopher, Edmund Burke

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." Kahlil Gibran

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6/15/09

Catchng up

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