Houston Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Poll: Favorite Quotes
What are some of your favorite quotes that you really "believe" in?
Re: Poll: Favorite Quotes
"Make it work!"- Tim Gunn
Some of my favs are:
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; Begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything happens for a reason."
Very cliche, but it's helped me BS myself through a lot of sticky situations.
Also, "Don't dream it. Be it."
Most favorite:
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without
but have to let go"
I found that quote after losing my brother and it helped me with closure and knowing that I'm still here and have keep moving, no matter how much I miss him.
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives. - Maya Angelo
I'm a big planner and worrier, and this quote reminds me to live in the moment.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one's lifetime."
Mark Twain
I also like that poem by Shel Silverstein - Listen to the Mustn'ts - can't remember exactly how it goes right now... but its a good one!
I have several:
"Creativity takes courage' - henri matisse
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway"
- Eleanore Roosevelt
"Faith in God includes faith in His timing" - Neal A. Maxwell
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
And then I just had to share this hehe
Go Against the Grain - Blog - Updated 1.9.12
Married Bio! Follow my Pinterest!
"I don't think that means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)
This quote is way more relevant than you would think.
Dx: PCOS and short luteal phase
18 cycles (3 with our RE) - Metformin + Clomid + HCG booster did the trick!
BFP #1 6/22/09 EDD: 3/2/10 DS born: 3/8/10
TTC #2 since Dec 2011
BFP #2 7/8/12 EDD: 3/18/12 M/C @ 9w1d: 8/16/12
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
"I had to make do with my own truth, that I would not accept from others what I could not attain on my own." - Carl Jung
I love this part of "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens on finding God in "unconventional" places..
"Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? Shall she not find in comforts of the sun, In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else In any balm or beauty of the earth, Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven? Dvinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The bough of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul."
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
- Lena Horn
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream--
Lingering in the golden gleam--
Life, what is it but a dream?
- Lewis Carroll
This is the last 6 lines of the untitled poem at the beginning of Through the Looking-Glass. I know it's a peom, but the last line is so very true.
excellent
Go Against the Grain - Blog - Updated 1.9.12
Married Bio! Follow my Pinterest!
?A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.? - Bill Cosby
"Women who behave rarely make history." - Unknown
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. Thats why they call it the present."--(Don't know the original source...but heard it on Kung Fu Panda. HA!)
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." Henry David Thoreau
"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen". --Charles Bukowski
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire". --Bukowski
"I want specifics on the general idea". --Doug Martsch
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" --Niels Bohr
"Living with a dog is easy-like living with an idealist". --H.L. Mencken
"I listened to my instincts and they were wrong. Wrong: the opposite of right".--Steve Dunn from the movie "Singles"
Nobody cares if you can't dance well, just get up and dance!
Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.
"Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good". ~Dave Ramsey
Not sure where the 1st two came from... I'm sure I saw them on the internet somewhere. lol
"Well behaved women rarely make history" isn't unknown, it's originally from a paper by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, she's a historian at Harvard.
Here are some of mine:
"This to shall pass" -I Corinthians
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall" -Nelson Mandela
Most days at work I feel like this:
"Historians are gossips who tease the dead" -Voltaire
I know there are more, but that's all I can think of right now.
I hadn't seen it worded that way, or heard of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Don't know where I heard this, but it really made me think...
Every Saint has a past and every sinner has a future..
"Opinions are like assholes. everyone has one and most of them stink."
I am very sophisticated.
"i can usually judge a man by what he laughs at." Wilson Mizner
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
I love this post. So many of your quotes really touched me! Thanks ladies!
My Ovulation Chart || Ovulation Chart
Yippee ki yay, mother***er. ~John McClane.
We can be sophisticated together.
Oooh I love yours too! I say that now and then under my breath, lol!
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011