Blog This Mom!: June 2011

Favorite Quotes

You want to see a miracle? Be the miracle.
~God in Bruce Almighty

If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
~God in Evan Almighty

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
~George Bernard Shaw

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
~Albert Einstein

Just follow your heart. That's what I do.
~Napoleon Dynamite

I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
~Frank Costello in The Departed

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~Mark Twain

This is a doughnut stuffed with M&Ms. That way when you're finished with the doughnut you don't have to eat any M&Ms.
~Dr. Rick Marshall in Land of The Lost

I can't control the cards I'm dealt, just how I play the hands.
~Professor Randy Pausch

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
~Professor Randy Pausch

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
~Michael Jordan

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~Mohandas Gandhi

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
~Raymond Williams