Random Quotes

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
Author Unknown

You’re never fully dressed without a smile.
Martin Charnin

A glad heart makes a cheerful face…
Proverbs 15:13a

What if the only things we had today were what we thanked God for yesterday?
Author Unknown

Sometimes it seems the things we find hardest to be thankful for
are actually what God uses to bring us His best blessings.
me

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Thank y’all for stopping by to visit Little Things.
May your life be filled with little blessings, little chuckles,
and little deeds of kindness (both given and received)!
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…and may you always be thankful enough to smile
…even if you have to smile through tears.
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Before you leave, here’s a blog you might enjoy.

I just read Lissa Rabon’s post from the Texas Hill Country.
Our state’s severe drought continues, and her family has been searching for hay for their cattle.
Her husband finally located some in Louisiana,
and it arrived this morning.
I think they’re pretty grateful and joyful about today’s delivery!
Lissa’s post includes some very interesting first-hand information about the cattle and drought situation,
as well as wonderfully descriptive comments about her relationship with their animals.
“The Louisiana Round Bales have arrived…”

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– and here’s ONE more I just found –

MJ has a heart-warming post on the joys found in everyday life
on Joy

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OK.  I’d better let you go.
I’m sure I could find more good ones to share…
but as my southern sistas would say, “I have to wash the supper dishes!”
Hope y’all have a good weekend!

Random Quotes

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If you thank God after the fact, that’s gratitude.
If you thank God before it happens, that’s faith.
Author Unknown

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A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts

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Too often we underestimate the power of
a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F Buscaglia

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Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.
Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer

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Thank y’all for stopping by to visit “Little Things.”
May your life be filled with little blessings, little chuckles,
and little deeds of kindness (both given and received)!
♥
Whether you’ll be working, playing, or just staying home –
I hope everyone has a safe Labor Day Weekend…
and if Tropical Storm Lee’s knocking on your doorstep,
y’all take care and stay dry!
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Random Quotes

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
Sally Koch

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs –
jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann

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Keep a “funny bone” up your sleeve.
Laughter keeps you young at heart!!

Mrs. Edwinna Edwards
My 6th Grade Teacher

 

He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
Job 8:21

We can’t always depend on our outward circumstances to make us happy…
but when we trust in God and put our hope in Him,
then — regardless of our circumstances —
He will fill us with His joy!
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Father’s Day Smiles

In loving memory of my dear daddy
and my wonderful father-in-law…    

and in honor of my husband,
my very best friend and the father of our children.

Three very loving, honorable, and unselfish Christian men who have blessed my life!

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I love my father as the stars –
he’s a bright shining example
and a happy twinkling in my heart.
Adabella Radici

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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother
rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

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Honor your father and mother.
Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:12

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 I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
Sigmund Freud

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Reverence for God gives a man deep strength;
his children have a place of refuge and security.
Proverbs 14:26

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Every father should remember that
one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.
Unknown

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It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him,
or leave him for your own career and your own home –
it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.
Margaret Truman

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My father didn’t tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence B. Kelland

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A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Knights of Pythagoras

 

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You fathers will understand.
You have a little girl. She looks up to you.
You’re her oracle. You’re her hero.
And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave
and goes to her first real party,
and from that day on,
you’re in a constant state of panic.
Stanley T. Banks; Father of the Bride

 

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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel

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It is not flesh and blood but the heart
which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one,
I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person,
he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

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I’ve had a hard life,
but my hardships are nothing
against the hardships that my father went through
in order to get me to where I started.
Bartrand Hubbard

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Listen with respect to the father who raised you…
Proverbs 23:22a

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Something you’ll probably never hear your father say:
Well, how ’bout that?… I’m lost!
Looks like we’ll have to stop and ask for directions.

Father.
The Christian name for God.
(For more on this thought,
please click below to go to a related post.)

 

Random Quotes

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.
Liz Armbruster

Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
Barbara Johnson

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
Emily Post

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney

The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJV)

John Wesley

 

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? 

May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? 

Without all doubt, we may.

Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.