Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Most gas stations in the South have little change dishes by the register. If you’re paying for a transaction and need an extra penny or two, you simply take one from the dish. People then reciprocate this good turn by dropping a few coins in the dish from time to time, thereby creating a community bank of sorts, based on goodwill.
So in that spirit, this is Southern Plate’s “Give A Penny, Get A Penny” page.” I dearly love positive quotes and am always scouring the web for more so I thought this would be a great place to compile all of those. I’ll post mine, you post yours, and we can all “Give A Penny” when we have one and come back to “Get A Penny” when we need one.
I’ll also draw from these quotes to include at the bottom of my posts and emails that I send out to Southern Plate readers and be sure to credit the person who provided it, so include a link to your blog if you have one.
I would consider it a personal favor if you’d take the time to share a quote of motivation or positivity in the comments section below. Quote yourself, your Mama, someone famous, or our best friend “Anonymous”, it doesn’t matter, long as you drop your penny and then come back on one of those days when you feel like you might need one yourself.
Gratefully,
Christy
Daddy has told me this several times: When he was in Korea, he sent his Mom a
postcard that said “Worry is like a rocking chair, keeps you busy & gets you nowhere.”
I am too BLESSED to be STRESSED and too ANOITED to be DISAPPOINTED.
God Bless You Christy
Quote:
Knowledge is knowing what to say,
Wisdom is knowing when to say it..
Teresa…….You are so right! There are many intelligent people on this planet, but unfortunately wisdom does not go hand in hand.
Do not ever believe God doesn’t answer your prayers…
Sometimes the answer is simply No… ⛪
Can’t kill bad grass, just wilt it a little. And not speaking about real grass. Talking about me.
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” – William Faulkener
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, GO I……..
Amen.
Often times I will give money to the homeless on the streets of Houston and sadly we have many.
some people tell me that I should not do this because they will just get liquor or maybe drugs. I know this could be true but perhaps I help them to not do worse things than stand on a corner with a sign. Many of my own family members have fought with addictions…and not all of them won that battle. Remember the truth is that saying….There but for the grace of God..go I.
ATTITUDE
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent of what happens to us and 90 percent of how we respond to it.
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day to day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, and no challenge too great for me.