"when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver"

-- Reba McEntire

#Giving Quotes #Life Gives You Lemons Quotes #Screwdrivers Quotes

“I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...”
“Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.”
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

Source : "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.
“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”
“The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'”
“The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”

Source : John Irving (1996). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”, p.340, Arcade Publishing
“The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.”

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