Category: Quotations

Dealing with Change

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Quote from “500 Days of Summer” a film based on the relationship between a man and a woman, Tom and Summer, who work at a greeting card company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Days_of_Summer

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

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‘Love…’ said Mr Jones

Love doesn’t make

the world go round.

Love is what makes

the ride worthwhile.

 

Franklin P. Jones (1908-1980)

Mr Jones was a reporter, public relations executive and humorist.

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More of his agreeably witty sayings here
http://www.greatthoughtstreasury.com/author/franklin-p-jones

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

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Too Much…

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https://www.becomingminimalist.com/becoming-minimalist-start-here/ and also https://clutterfreenow.com/blog/decluttering/do-you-suffer-from-acute-iicp-aka-clutter-paralysis/

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

Shopping – Bombeck and Kinsella say…

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“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.” ― Erma Bombeck (February 1927 – April 1996) ― American writer and humourist Erma Bombeck achieved great popularity for her newspaper column which described suburban home life from mid-1960s until late 1990s. She published 15 books, appeared on television shows, and wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, all featuring her entertaining and eloquent humour. Irma Bombeck wrote before social media, achieving world-wide fame through her books, and in 1970s her columns were read twice-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in US and Canada.  Interestingly her work featured domesticity during the women’s liberation movement. She hid a life-long illness which was disclosed three years prior to her death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar said…

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Marguerite Yourcenar, or Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour, was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and Erasmus Prize, in 1980 she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française. Her most notable work is historical novel “‎Mémoires d’Hadrien” (Memoirs of Hadrian) and I have read “Denier du Rêve” (retitled A Coin in Nine Hands) set in 1933 over one day in Rome where a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine unusual people https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marguerite-Yourcenar The flower buds are Dianella caerulea (commonly known as the blue flax-lily) which turn into small green then purple berries and it grows in a terracotta pot near my kitchen door. GBW.

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

Thinking Controlled by Machines

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Franklin Patrick Herbert (1920-1986) was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels although he wrote other books and short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/frank-herbert/

John Wayne Quotation

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John Wayne, or Duke, was a major American movie actor. His characters were often strong, reserved cowboys or soldiers who reflected mid-20th century values. He filmed over 77 movies https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000487182/

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward