GIVEAWAY: Quotes Galore for 2 Paperblanks Pocket Embossed Journals
2 Mar
Giveaway Details:
- Enter by leaving a comment below with one of your favorite quotes for a chance to win one of the journals.
- AND for a second entry, head on over to our Facebook Page and comment with another of your favorite quotes!
- We’ll choose one winner from the blog comment entries, and one winner from the Facebook comment entries. Good luck!
- This giveaway is only open to U.S. residents.
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“Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire
(Love the look of those notebooks)
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Erasmus
Never give in. Never, never, never. (Winston Churchill)
I want to win. This above all to thine ownself be true, and it shall follow as the night the day; thou can not be false unto any man.
I wore a mask until my face grew to fit it. -E. M. Forster
Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
What a time. What a beach. What a dog.
‘It’s a trap!’
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. -The Rolling Stones
It’s all about the black and white because the only grey that matters is between your ears….~Susan C. Grimes
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. J.K. Rowling
“Paris is always a good idea.” Sabrina Fairchild
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it. Joseph Campbell
“Aha! that squeaky board in the butler’s pantry!” said Toad. “Now I understand it!”
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
#EAP
“Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.” -Dorothy Parker
My mind is my own church – Thomas Paine
Life is never about how many breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
“A house that has a library in it has a soul” -Plato
It isn’t the big troubles in life that require character.
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage,
but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh–I really
think that requires SPIRIT — Jean Webster
Embrace Change
When you are aware and accept that everything around you is constantly changing, and that you have no control over 99.99% of it, you are able to embrace change like a close friend! Change is a like a river, constantly flowing and moving things around. The river of life is constantly bringing you ideas, people, situations – each one is an opportunity to be enriched or to enrich others, to grow and to learn. Change is the play of the universe as it entertains us in the biggest light-and-sound show of all time. Why fight it, why not sit back and enjoy the show?
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You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. ~Robin Williams
“you can look at my bankbook, but I’ll never let you touch my purse…” (Bessie Smith)
“People who keep journals have life twice.” ~ Jessamyn West
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
Judge your success by the degree that you’re enjoying peace, health, and love.
“I’m very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in” – Warren Zevon
These journals look like the perfect place to write and save great quotes like the following:
“I’m no longer afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my own ship.” by Louisa May Alcott
One Love <3 Bob Marley
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
“Everything’s shiny, Cap’n. Not to fret.” Kaylee on Firefly.
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” William James
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
― Roger Miller
“There is nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.” -Banksy
Heehee– finally my passion for collecting quotes has a use:
“I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.”
― Dodie Smith
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Miguel deCevantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Instead of marinating in the energy of the problem, start living in the energy of the solution ~Leisa
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
― John Mason
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” – maya Angelou
“Read philosphy. Study art. Ask questions. Make mistakes.” – Unknown
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. – Mandela
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. – Marilyn Monroe
“You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” -Jesus (John 13:7)
“Thanks for all the fish!” Douglas Adams
Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?
Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
-Orson Wells-
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter
“No single thing abides, but all things flow.” Heraclitus.
“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
Frank Zappa
O Son of Man! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
Baha’u'llah
For March, Gotta love a good %%- Irish Blessing %%- @};-
I wish you not a life devoid of clouds,
Nor a life on a bed of roses,
not that you might never need regret,
nor that you should never feel pain.
No, that is not my wish for you.
My wish for you is:
That you might be brave in times of trial,
when others lay crosses upon your shoulders.
That every gift God gave you might grow along with you,
And let you give the gift of joy to all who care for you.
That you may always have a friend who is worth that name.
Whom you can trust,
and who helps you in times of sadness.
Who will defy the storms of daily life at your side.
That in every hour of joy and pain
you may feel God close to you.
This is my wish for you, and for all who care for you.
This is my hope for you, now and forever.
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
AND, these journals look awesome!
“They all die?? That’s rubbish!” Gnomeo to Bill Shakespeare in “Gnomeo and Juliet”
“The essential is invisible to the eyes.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.”
- Christopher Isherwood
If criminals are outlawed, only outlaws will be criminals.
Common sense is not so common.
Less is more.
“Life is a what if statement”
- Carlos Gonzalez
“If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then the world is yours and all that’s in it.” — Rudyard Kipling
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary
“All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and confirmation of a well-bred and well-trained horse- more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, slick of coat and sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly, and yet forever a menace with it’s innocent power and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight, and always a burden with its need to be fed, wormed, and shod, and it’s liability to cuts and infections, to laming and heaves. But when it greets you with a nicker, nuzzles your chest, and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be and what you want to do has been answered.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
– Mary Oliver
real life has an uncanny knack of reminding us of its presence on a daily basis
“Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily” – Gilda Radner
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential.
Who we are might be pre-determined but the path we follow is always of our own choosing.
We should never allow our fears, or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
Your destiny can’t be changed, but it can be challenged.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single man.”
Unknown
Scars have the strange power to remind you that the past is real. (Cormac McCarthy)
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
Dr. Seuss
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Don’t compare your beginnings to someone else’s middle.” ~Jon Acuff
“What a comfort a dictionary is.” Lewis Carroll
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” Hunter S. Thompson
The soul would have no rainbow
If the eye had no tears.
- Native American proverb
I’ve always loved this one. Thanks for the lovely giveaway
I love your notebooks, but they are expensive, so I don’t have many of them and I don’t want to waste those that I have
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.” –Ray Bradbury
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. -Cicero
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men. -Pascal
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda
i have heard this quote so many times in speeches and debate rounds amongst the teens. and i love Paper Blanks, so I’d really like to win one
“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde
“Every true story ends in death.” Ernest Hemingway
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Hugo Cabret
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.
– Steve Jobs
Every moment of one’s existence is growing into more or retreating into less ~ Norman Mailer
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
I raise chickens.
The problem with quotes on the Internet is that you can never be sure who really said them. – Abraham Lincoln
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“I wear my heart on my blog.”
― Coco J. Ginger
Those are gorgeous! They would be an inspiration to think great thoughts.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
No one has ever become poor by giving. – Anne Frank
“Just to feel…not what to feel, but just to feel something.” Eddie Vedder