A quote from one of my Christmas gifts.

"...Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Do not...seek the answers, 3which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will...graduall, without noticing it, live along soome distant day into the answer."
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet. Letter No. 4. Translated by M.D. Herter

Peace
~Mad
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"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you." - Frederick Buechner

from http://www.bedlamfarm.com/

"....I believe in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it. For example, I have a stack of six books that I am working through most weekday mornings -- a page or two of each every time I sit down to read. I do the same thing with writing -- if you have time for a little bit, then do a little bit."
~Doug Wilson by way of Jawan

Peace,
~Madewyn

"One man, one vote." ~Civil rights slogan

"There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see." ~William James (1842 - 1910)

Peace,
~Mad

(...and remember, my own words are over at www.xanga.com/madewyn)

"...who are you to judge the life i live? i know i'm not perfect – and i don't live to be. but before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean."

~bob marley

Borrowed from Spring of Joy:

“…my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes–what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows–what new landscapes–what new beauties–what curves and hills and valleys further on.”

– Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXXVIII

I was going to copy this quote:

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." ~Anne Frank

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/anne_frank.html)

Then I found this one, too:

"Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key."
~Alan Bennett

(http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_diversity.html)

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

-Thomas Merton

As always, remember I am over at www.xanga.com/madewyn more often than not!

Peace

borrowed from candyrant.blogspot.com:


I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

Jack London

from http://antiquemommy.com:

“Faith wears everyday clothes and proves herself in life’s ordinary situations.”

Check my own words out at www.xanga.com/madewyn

Found on a RevGalPal blog -

“Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.”–Martin Luther

Peace,
~Mad(elyn) in Alabama

Remember I am usually found over at www.xanga.com/madewyn -

...in an email from Iowa this morning -

"If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about."
~Mere Christianity

Amen.

~Mad(elyn)

Remember I blog myself over at www.xanga.com/madewyn

From http://www.wheresmydamnanswer.com/WP02/?p=805 Carol Woodliff

"For my book, I was researching the Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and I ran across the full text of the 1933 inaugural address from which that quote is taken.
As I read this today with all the news about the financial markets, I realized that it is good to have a sense of history and where we’ve been and where we are now. Seems much of what FDR wrote about is in play today.
In the speech, FDR said:
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Seems we are still working on that one, eh?"

Something to think about, huh?

Remember I blog my own stuff over at www.xanga.com/madewyn.

Pastor Chuck Swindoll wrote “humor is not a sin. It is a God-given escape hatch … a safety valve … to lack a good sense of humor is a serious deficiency (The Finishing Touch).

Remember - I usually blog (in my own words) over at www.xanga.com/madewyn

Random - just random...

" Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake."

~Mark Twain (Barlett's Quotations)

from http:/falwyn.wordpress.com:

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened to you, and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

-Ernest Hemingway

Remember i'm usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn where I use my own words much more than here - which is not so much.

Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, mother of Senator Joe Biden:
"You know, she taught her children-all the children who flocked to our house-that you are defined by your sense of honor, and you are redeemed by your loyalty. She believes bravery lives in every heart and her expectation is that it will be summoned.

"Failure at some point in everyone’s life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. "

from www.dooce.com:

"My friend Leona gave me some really profound advice last night as we were talking about how much better our thirties are compared to our twenties. She said, 'No matter what horrible thing you're going through, when it's all over it only takes three seconds to sum it up. Remember that.' "

I like that - alot!

Remember i'm usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn where I use my own words much more than here - which is NONE.

An endless supply of great quotes by great leaders: http://www.greatquotesmovie.com/

Thanks to www.rocksinmydryer.com for the lead...

Remember, I am more often over at www.xanga.com/madewyn with words of my own.

Though I have to admit, other folks' words so often just say it so much better!

~Mad(elyn) in Alabama

Remember I am usually over at www.xanga.com/madewyn where I write more than just other folks' words - I try some of my own.