WELL-WRITTEN DAYS: WRite wHere I’m Supposed To Be
Links to online articles ~
Mature Living, a LifeWay magazine [article on page 8 about kids moving back home...they're back!] http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/files/lwcF_Mature-Living-June2010.pdf
This Old House, a home renovation magazine [September 2008 issue with our Conway home featured as a DIY project]
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20226197,00.html
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. marilyn ferguson
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, mind your own business and work with your hands…
1 thessalonians 4:11
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
paul harvey
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
winston churchill – i think i like this one, i guess…mmm, not completely sure
Busyness is the enemy of spirituality. It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our time with our own actions instead of paying attention to God.
eugene peterson, Eat That Frog post
It takes suffering to widen the soul.
billy graham
I don’t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
jerry b. jenkins
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
t. s. eliot
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
unknown
…let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
hebrews 12:1, nlt
Fear is excitement in need of an attitude adjustment.
unknown
We have to acquire a taste for grace.
libby little
GRACE is getting what you don’t deserve; MERCY is not getting what you do deserve.
james watkins
All it takes is all you’ve got.
rivers lynch
JUST FOR GIGGLES 
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
david letterman
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
p.g. wodehouse
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
joe ancis
God has never failed me, but he’s sure scared me to death a few times.
dr. stan toler, title of his book
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.
rodney dangerfield
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.
groucho marx
I used to like Wal-Mart until they went into the phone booth and came out Superstore.
s.k.h.
Let’s follow each other to wherever we’re all going in Twitter World.
s.k.h.
I’m sorry my karma ran over your dogma.
unknown
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
zig ziglar
Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.
unknown
I never met a chocolate I didn’t like.
deanna troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Take me to your chocolate.
s.k.h.
If at first you don’t succeed, then quit. There’s no need being a fool about it.
w.c. fields
If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.
alan lewis
Final word on success:
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving’s probably not for you.
unknown
Should I be concerned if most of my heroes are cartoon characters?
s.k.h.
I signed up for an exercise class and they told me to wear loose clothes. If I had loose clothes, I wouldn’t have signed up in the first place.
doris boyd-piver
about Pets ~ 
Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery.
corny, carroty quote by wish I knew
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
unknown
about Writing ~ 
Why am I on here (on Facebook) when I have deadlines?
s.k.h.
It’s no coincidence that writing and waiting are one letter apart. I knew I should have paid more attention before picking up that pen!
s.k.h.
You will never outperform your own self image.
maxwell maltz
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
jack london
I write for the same reason I breathe – if I didn’t, I’d die.
isaac asimov
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ernest hemingway – my friend (who doesn’t write, btw) would say, “big drama”
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
erica jong
The easiest way for me to express myself is through writing. There are no walls surrounding my notebook and pen.
michael j. sullivan
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
irvin s. cobb
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e.e. cummings
JOY and JOB are only one letter apart as well. Fits Job in the Bible as well as our work, doesn’t it? s.k.h.
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
bertrand russell
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
edmund burke
Every path has its puddles.
a proverb
Laughter is progress.
unknown
The most difficult thing about life is that it’s daily.
philis hendry
God doesn’t close one door without opening another but sometimes it’s hell in the hallway.
a friend’s version
The best revenge is living well.
jerry seinfeld
I yam what I yam.
popeye
And we're clearly not helping things.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
eleanor roosevelt
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
samuel jackson
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Theresa, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.
h. jackson brown, jr.
Though I want to be both, the older I get, the more I move from being passionate to being compassionate.
s.k.h.
Real change is uncomfortable. If it’s not feeling that way, you’ve probably just adopted new words.
seth godin
God can’t hand you anything new until you let go of what you’re holding. unknown
about Love ~
We can’t love someone and try to control them at the same time – we have to pick one.
s.k.h.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
bill hooks
about Marriage ~ 
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
doug larson
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
ruth bell graham
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
phyllis diller from Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
My wife said I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said.
unknown
At times, it’s been better to be me than to know me.
facebook friend
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
author of C Through Marriage, jim hughes
about the Baby Carriage ~
Raising teens is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.
unknown
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
angela schwindt
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
walt streightiff
We can love them into Heaven or preach them into hell.
bill cusack
Sometimes heartbreak is necessary for one to truly appreciate God’s gift of time….
said by Jesus to michael stewart, main character in Necessary Heartbreak
michael j. sullivan’s favorite quote, author of Necessary Heartbreak
A book collector is interested in the first edition, but an author is more interested in the tenth.
anonymous
c.j. darlington’s favorite quote, author of Thicker Than Blood
I love quotes and I’ve collected thousands. Wonder if they’ll all fit on here.
I want to use some of these quotes. I will give credit. (if I think they deserve it)
Use away! And there’s more to come – I’m a quotaholic.
Hi Kim~
I use a lot of quotes when I do my scrapbooking~so it’s nice to have found them on your blog.
I”ve been sick w/a cold, but when I recover(trying to get in to the dr. soon), I have some questions for you. I’d need you to lead me in the right direction to get my haiku poems copyrighted. I want to get them into a book with photographs also. I’d like to get the poems copyrighted before I do the book because I use them on canvas art prints I make also.
Now that I’m pretty settled into Murrells Inlet from NJ…I’m ready to stir up my CREATIVE side(s) I’m passionate about. !!!
More later~
Sylvia
Hi Sylvia, Thanks so much for stopping by to read and comment. I’d love to help in any way I can. From what I understand about writing, you don’t have to copyright. The act of writing is as binding as a copyright. That’s what I’ve been told by a couple of seasoned writers so I’ve taken it to heart and haven’t copyrighted any of my work. And I piddle in poetry as well, and haven’t copyrighted there either. Of course, I always question how I’d prove it’s really mine but that’s probably easy enough to do since our work has a certain style.
Hope that helps a little and ask away if you have other questions. I’ll try to get you answers.
Good luck getting stirred!
Kim
Thanks Kim~That’s a help. When I saw your comment about info being copyrighted…it made me wonder. We’ll talk more-I’m heading out to the doctor’s office soon.
Oh yeah, I do have that on there since it’s copyrighted because I wrote it, so others will ask permission before using it somewhere else. But I didn’t go through any official process.
LOL and ? and Ponder and LOL! Wonderful quotes, SKH!
Will share them and add them to my ‘keeper-quotes-file!’
Blessings,
<3 Sheri
How long have you been writing and are you published? Officially? A book?
I would like a word of advise of how you would go about getting a book of devotions published written by sjd (me) between 2002-2006?
Hi Sheri, I am published but I don’t have a book (yet, that’s a goal). I write for national and regional publications. I’d suggest going to writing conferences and talking to editors, agents and other authors who have experience in that area. A conference is one of the best ways to get on track and hear from others with more experience. I hope that helps. Good luck and let me know what’s happening with you.
“Let your Light Shine.” Jesus Christ – Matthew 5:16