Bessie-isms:

*Far too many people spend their lives waiting for better things while they ignore the wonderful things they already possess.

*Nothing is more painful than watching your child make the exact same stupid mistakes you made.

Quotable:

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Emmet Fox

Bessie-isms:

*Mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow, not things to hide from.

*Don’t expect others to forgive you for things you’d not forgive anyone else for doing.

Quotable:

Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara de Angelis

Bessie-isms:

*If you can’t stand your own farts, how will you live with those of a partner?

*The chore list that is ignored will surely get no shorter.

Quotable:

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

Bessie-isms:

*You expect to spend years mastering a musical instrument; Then why do you expect to master life on the first few attempts?

*You ignore your friends when they tell you how dumb you’re acting, but answer this; why do you have stupid friends, genius, if you think their advice is worthless?

Quotable:

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Bessie-isms:

*If your dog acted like your cat, you’d beat it to death.

*Embarrassment should show you you’ve done something wrong or improper. Too many are embarrassed to simply do what they know they should.

Quotable:

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey

Bessie-isms:

*You can’t feel rejected if you don’t first allow yourself to care.

*The world is a tapestry woven of the choices made by multitudes. That doesn’t give us much to be proud of at the moment, does it?

Quotable:

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Bessie-isms:

*It is always easier to blame someone else for your own failings, than to be honest and confess.

*Love makes the object of your ardor more beautiful  to you than they might be to others.

Quotable:

Love that is not madness is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Bessie-isms:

*Children give you the biggest joys, and the deepest cuts; a parent is someone who can laugh and cry at the same moment.

*The world of your youth is just a memory and a history lesson.

Quotable:

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

Bessie-isms:

*The most impossible task in all existence is to take back something  you regret saying.

* Most times, you don’t see clearly because your mind wishes not to, not because your eyes are messed up.

Quotable:

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Khalil Gibran

ssie-isms:

*You hate being embarrassed, but honestly, you’d be a much better person if the evil things you do and say embarrassed you as much as they should.

*Why do so many women act like being admired by men is offensive? Are they going half naked to attract other women?