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  1. anonymisss
    Member

    aussie, you're good at this. You should go into writing;)

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. aussieboy
    Member

    anonymisss: Thanks. Actually it had a whole thing before it which made me think of it (but I cant put what was before it on here. It wouldnt go through)

    kapusta: Thanks :)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. Jax
    Member

    Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
    -- Oscar Wilde

    Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
    -- Mary Kay Ash

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. Jax
    Member

    Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
    -- Voltaire

    Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
    -- David Seabury

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. Jax
    Member

    Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
    -- Will Rogers

    Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
    -- Margaret B. Runbeck

    Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
    -- Leon J. Suenes

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. Jax
    Member

    I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
    -- Louisa May Alcott

    If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
    -- Margaret Fuller

    It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
    -- Seneca

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. Jax
    Member

    Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
    -- George Bernard Shaw

    Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
    -- Brendan Francis

    Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
    -- Charles Dickens

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    goes something like this...

    Happiness can not be found in a city or town; its all in a state of mind.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. anonymisss
    Member

    jax, wow!

    kapusat, also boredom

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. aussieboy
    Member

    Life is like a carpet (I have no idea why so dont bother asking)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. anonymisss
    Member

    aussie, cuz if you keep walking circles on it, it gets worn out;)

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. squeak
    Makes smalltalk with the two most sandy ectoplasmic beings on Earth (not to mention the Man on the Moon).

    On the subject of car/pet, did you ever realize that although a dog riding in a car will stick his head out the window to get the wind in his face, he will bite your head off if you ever try to blow on his face, even gently.

    That's what life is like.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    aussie, you could say maybe a magic carpet, takes you wherever it wants. :)

    NEXT: aussieboy will explain why life can be compared to a pen! and after that, a tissue! dont miss it! :)

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. goody613
    last remaining Member

    a word is worth a selah (coin) but keeping quiet is worth two
    -gemara in megillah

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. Jax
    Member

    A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
    -- Robert Frost

    An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
    -- Gandhi

    A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
    -- Winston Churchill-speaking of the guy around here!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
    -- Gandhi

    excellent, like the one,

    If you fight fire with fire, you only end up with ashes.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. Jax
    Member

    kapusta: your quote is great too!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. Jax
    Member

    Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
    -- Garrison Keillor

    Buy land. They've stopped making it.
    -- Mark Twain

    Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
    -- Josh Billings

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. Jax
    Member

    He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.
    -- Author Unknown

    I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore I am perfect.
    -- Author Unknown

    If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
    -- Margaret Thatcher

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. Jax
    Member

    Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.<---This one i really really like!
    -- Erma Bombeck

    The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
    -- Friedrich Nietzsche

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. aussieboy
    Member

    kapusta: Actually its not a pen its like a pencil. Its what is inside (the lead) that counts not what is on the outside. OR Dont be led, lead! ;)

    As for a tissue. If you cry about how horrible your life is all you will do it make it worse.

    How did I do?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. Jax
    Member

    aussie: A+ for you buddy!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. anonymisss
    Member

    aussie, you are goooood! Love this - Dont be led, lead!

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. BiffCrumbly
    Member

    The early bird catches the worm;
    The early worm gets eaten

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. aussieboy
    Member

    anonymisss: Thanks lol

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. anonymisss
    Member

    any more??

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
    -- Margaret Thatcher

    of course that was said by a woman....

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. anonymisss
    Member

    Those who judge don't matter, those who matter don't judge.

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. an open book
    Member

    anonymisss: i always heard it as "those who matter don't mind, & those who mind don't matter"!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. anonymisss
    Member

    Yeh, i've heard that way too;)

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  31. Jax
    Member

    You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
    -- Desmond Tutu

    Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
    -- Jim Rohn

    Posted 6 years ago #
  32. Jax
    Member

    The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him...
    -- Oscar Wilde

    Posted 6 years ago #
  33. Jax
    Member

    this one's for the books-----> My husband says I feed him like he's a god: every meal is a burnt offering.
    -- Rhonda Hansome

    Posted 6 years ago #
  34. Yoshon
    Member

    one may learn providing one's mind is not made up and one can still be confused with the facts!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  35. Yoshon you aint old at all :) Welcome to the CR- head to the New Members thread

    Posted 6 years ago #
  36. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in memory as the wish to forget it.
    - Michel de Montaigne

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  37. an open book
    Member

    kapusta: so instead of consciously trying to forget it, try thinking about something else. that works a lot better!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  38. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    AOB, I wasnt talking about anything in particular I was trying to forget, I just liked the quote.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  39. an open book
    Member

    kapusta: yeah i know ;)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  40. anonymisss
    Member

    Kapusta, I like that one. A lot.

    A surgeon can do anything with a nose except keep it out of other people's business.

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  41. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    are you trying to et me in a good mood?

    I like that one. Did you ever see the cartoon of a surgeon in the operating room with a guy on the table all ready to perform surgery, and the surgeon says to the nurse, "Go to surgery.com and click on the 'are you totally lost' link.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  42. anonymisss
    Member

    kapusta, i'm always trying to get anyone who's not happy in a happy mood.

    no, never saw but lol;)

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  43. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    me too, and even after I heard (I should say figured out) what I did, I was still trying to cheer people up, but its not working on me. I cant stop thinking about it. :(

    btw, the real cartoon was better.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  44. anonymisss
    Member

    kapusta, what's up? I'm so concerned about you;(

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  45. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    anonymisss, thanx. to put it in laymens terms I'm watching someone I know (not a bad person. bad influences) go OTD. its awful.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  46. anonymisss
    Member

    kapusta, ouch;( I know that. I really, really do. It kills. I'm so sad for you.

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  47. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    I would edit if I could, so,

    EDIT: its more than one person (I'm afraid to think how many, and I dont know if all of them are strong enough) and there is nothing I could do about it.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  48. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    anonymisss, thanx, I appreciate it. I feel like I'm watching a slow death (a spiritual one anyway.)

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  49. moish01
    Member

    kapusta, don't you think you're taking this a little to the extreme? slow death?? gee.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  50. moish01
    Member

    "Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry."

    Bill Cosby

    Posted 6 years ago #

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