blog spotlights: February 19, 2006

found this to be so thought-provoking...

"So it is with faith. If we cherish our own, then we will understand the value of others. We may regard ours as a diamond and another faith as a ruby, but we know that both are precious stones. But if faith is a mere burden, not only will we not value ours, neither will we value the faith of someone else. We will see both as equally useless. True tolerance comes not from the absence of faith but from its living presence. Understanding the particularity of what matters to us is the best way of coming to appreciate what matters to others."

found on Random Reflections

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various quotes that i absolutely LOVED found on *Olive Branch Cafe*

Keep your face in the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. (Irish Proverb)

If you see a chance to be happy, grab it with both hands and the hell with the consequences. The only things in this life that you really regret are the risk you didn't take. (Jack Lemon, "Grumpy Old Men")

I bless you. I kiss & caress every tenderly beloved place & gaze into your deep, sweet eyes which long ago conquered me completely. Love ever grows. (Tsaritsa Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia)

I do love you...as the dew loves the flowers; as the birds love the sunshine; as the wavelets love the breeze; as mothers love their firstborn; as memory loves old faces; as the yearning tides love the moon; as angels love the pure in heart. (Mark Twain)

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. (William Feather)

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"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." (Roald Dahl)

found on Family Journal

this quote absolutely reached out & grabbed me. i am starting to feel a scrapbook page coming on...something with all the wondrous little Disney-detail photos i have. ok lol...maybe not ALL of them (which would take volumes of pages), but some very favorites!

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a PSA that totally made me laugh out loud...and then follow its advice ;-)

"So my Photo of the Day is of a roll of toilet paper and entitled "Can You Spare A Square". Did I find beauty, Im thinking - no. But beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and maybe somewhere there is a women stuck in a public bathroom having to drip dry who would find this roll a toilet paper the most beautiful thing ever. Note to self: put a pack of tissues in your purse in case of emergency."

found on Dar-vah-lous

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little tidbits that made me giggle found on Do you not know what causes that?

1. Things You Never Thought You'd Say #1: Don't lick your sister's shoes.

2. Interesting Discovery: If you eat a half of a peppermint patty and a handful of oyster crackers at the same time - it tases just like the Girl Scount Thin Mints. Yum...

Don't ask how I figured this out...

3. What Causes That #3:

Inquiring Mind: Don't you know what causes that?

Little ol me: Yes, and we like it!

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this movitational quote posted on {just jen}

"Risk original thought. Redefine Success."

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this must be the week of the quote huh?

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity." (Washington Irving)

found on Adventures of a (d)rebel.

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seriously laughed till i cried...but it was one of those sympathetic "i would die, never mind live to share it with the internet" sort of laughs...this is one BRAVE woman!

Embarassing Moment #453,002,345

found on Very Mom

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more laughter:

Phun Phriday: Battle of the Sexes Humor Edition

found on the macdaddy of scrap

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kids make great blog material:

Whoa.
found on bits&pieces

But he does know his ass from his Elmo!
found on {at any rate...}

stinky baby
found on c'est la vie (ours anyway)