| "Bloom where you are planted." | "Bloom where you are planted ... and transplanted ... and transplanted." (the military version) | "Roll with the punches." | advice from a pastor after a fellow church member got angry with me. |
| "Let disappointments and problems make you better not bitter." | various pastors' sermons through the years. Good advice. |
| "It does not bither me a bot." | A friend used to say this when things should have bothered him a bit! |
| "What I can do is what I can do and what I can do is enough." | From Patricia Sprinkle's book: Women Who Do Too Much.This quote helped me through a time in my life when others thought I should do more than I knew I could do. |
| "I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." | Martha Washington 1790's. Her quote reminds me to accept where I am or whatever situation I am in now and remain at peace with myself. |