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Words (but not mine) on a bookmark.

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Words (but not mine) on a bookmark.
Group:Cup and Chaucer
Swap Coordinator:hollycm6 (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Bookmarks 
Number of people in swap:4
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:August 3, 2010
Date items must be sent by:August 31, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Create a bookmark for your partner using one of THEIR favorite quotes on one side, one of YOUR favorite quotes on the other. The quotes don't need to relate to each other OR to anything else! :)

Use any technique you like, but make something nice that (hopefully) your partner will enjoy using.

List at least five favorite quotes below, from which your partner may choose. (and the source, if possible)

No plain envies, either... cover your envie with... WORDS or QUOTES. Either one.

Discussion

hollycm6 07/27/2010 #

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

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. JM Barrie

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Cousteau

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

A friend knows the song in my heart and can sing it back to me when I have forgotten the words.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e e cummings

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star..." e e cummings

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. Leo Buscaglia

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words. (Calvin and Hobbes... or any other Calvin quote, really. :)

hollycm6 07/27/2010 #

This was so hard for me to choose, and I am terribly embarrassed to have only narrowed it down to 12!!!

Caranam 07/30/2010 #

I love this idea =)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." — Albert Einstein

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." — Douglas Adams

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept." - Calvin and Hobbes

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." — Anaïs Nin

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter " — E. E. Cummings

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten." — Neil Gaiman

hollycm6 07/31/2010 #

(I love your choices!)

waldenpond2 08/ 1/2010 #

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -- Henry David Thoreau

"When I have a little money, I buy books and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus

"Love is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." -- Shakespeare

JessiPancake 08/ 3/2010 #

I have one of the same quotes as Caranam! I love it.

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

"We are the makers of music and we are the dreamers of dreams." - Willy Wonka

"I want to go to there." - Liz Lemon

"Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy." - Louis CK

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it." - Mr. Magorium

"We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others." - Brennan Manning

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