You Can Quote Me On That

by Catherine Giordano

Will you be making New Year’s Resolutions this year?  Will you be keeping them next year? Did you keep them last year?  

Why do people have so much trouble with New Year’s resolutions? Perhaps because they are boring and easily forgotten. They are not inspirational or motivational 

I have an idea for this year’s resolutions. Instead of making a to-do list, make a list of your favorite inspirational quotes. Write them out or print them out. Take the list and frame it. Put it where you will see it often. Be inspired throughout the year. 

Perhaps you don’t have a favorite quote. Allow me to help. I have been collecting quotes and organizing them into categories in inspirational essays. They are all posted online.  

The quotes are on happiness, love, success, work, health, and kindness. Choose your favorite quotes—maybe one from each topic and you’ll be ready for the new year.

 

How to Be Happy: Quotes from Famous People on Happiness 

How to Be Successful:  Quotes from Famous People on Success 

How to Find Love: Quotes by Famous People on Love 

How to Work Harder, Smarter, Better: Quotes from Famous People on Work 

How to Be Healthy: Quotes from Famous People 

Make My Day: Quotes on Kindness from Famous People

 

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Not inspired by my collections or too lazy to make your own list (you really should work on that) try this book: Whatever You Are, Be a Good One.  It incudes 100 hand-lettered inspirational quotations.The delightful drawings alone will be inspirational. I recommend the hard cover version so you can keep it near your bed or on your coffee table so you will see it everyday. Read a page a day or pick a page at random and let fate decide what your inspirational quote for the day will be. It makes a wonderful gift for someone also. 

But first take a minute to look at my quotes. I worked hard to find the very best quotes in each category.

I'll tell you my choices.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. --Robert Collier

Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. --Leo Buscaglia

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.  --Tim Duncan

Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. --Edward Stanley

Always be a little kinder than necessary. --James M. Barrie

The above are my New Year's resolutions. I'm going to print them out on a card and put the card on the bulletin board over my desk so I will see it everyday first thing in the morning.

I hope you will check out my quote collections and choose a few for yourself. 

All You Need is Love

by Catherine Giordano

All You Need is Love!

And all I needed was 40 quotations from famous people on the subject of love to put together this inspirational essay about love--how to find it, how to keep it, and how to do it.

If you are writing a love letter, or even a little love note, or maybe making a card for an anniversary or Valentine's Day, consult this essay for something romantic.

I've also created some beautiful pictures and you are free to use them.

I wish you love.


Read the essay: 

How to Find Love: The 45 Best Quotes by Famous People on Love

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From Happiness to Success to Love

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by Catherine Giordano


 I’ve been doing a series of articles based on quotations from famous people. 

However, I don’t just give you a list of quotes like most websites that focus on quotations. I organize the quotes into “rules,” categorizing them according to theme and then add some advice of my own. 

I also have a value-added feature of providing a little bit of information about the person who gave us the quote. It puts the quote in context and eliminates that nagging question, “Who the heck is that person?”

I’ve learned a lot doing these articles. I began with one about happiness, then did one about success, and a few days ago I did a third one about love. 

I started off thinking I could just knock each one out in a couple of hours. I was wrong. Each one takes 10 to 15 hours to do. I have to find the exact right quotes, research the authors, discern the themes, write my commentary, and find or create the pictures to illustrate the article.

It’s hard work, but it is fun and I learn a lot in the process.  Read all three articles.

 

How to Be Happy    How to Be Successful    How to FindLove

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A Story of Love

I'll be doing a presentation at the Maitland Public Library on Sunday, February 2, 2014 at 3:00 pm titled “A Story of Love,” The event is free.  Free refreshments will be provided.

The presentation begins with a dramatic retelling of a Native American folk tale.  The storytelling is followed by a discussion about what the story can teach us about relationships with our loved ones.  The presentation is suitable for all ages.

The Maitland Public Library is located at 501 South Maitland Avenue, Maitland Florida 32751.  Reservations are suggested, but not necessary. The phone number is 407-647-7700.

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June, Moon, and Meaning

Percy Shelly

I was recently talking to a fellow poet, and we got onto the topic of light verse.  Is it art or is it drivel? I said that even light verse has to have meaning; he said that the ability to rattle off rhymes is also a talent. He mentioned Ogden Nash to illustrate his point.

Ogden Nash proves my point, not his. I began reading Ogden Nash in high school. First of all, Nash doesn’t just rattle off rhymes; his writing is clever and funny.   

For instance, here is one of his most famous little poems:



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"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."
 

Nash is not just delighting us with a clever rhyme; he is commenting on the social mores of seduction. I could probably write a PhD thesis on the meaning in that little poem--about love and sex and the relationships between men and women--but I won’t because I know if you think about it for a minute you’ll see what I mean. 

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For more quotes about love, see

How to Find Love: The 45 Best Quotes by Famous People on Love

 

 

To prove my point that it is easy to rattle off rhymes, I decided I would composed a little poem in a couple of minutes off the-top-of-my head. I intended it as a send-up of the moon-June cliché. However, when I wrote it down and read it, I realized that although I had intended to write doggerel, I was actually commenting on the social mores of love and sex and the relationships between men and women myself.

What can I say? Even when I try to be nothing but frivolous, I’m deep.

Here’s the poem I wrote.  What do you think?

 

The Moon in June

It was a lovely night in June.

And yes, you guessed it, there was a full moon.
My sweetie gave my lips a peck.
And then he began to nuzzle my neck.

At first it was just a low growl,

but soon it became a full-throated howl.
I thought, “It’s nothing more than lust.”
But it wasn’t—it was canis lupus.