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Text Box: Cornerstone Calligraphy By Bernard Parkin List of Bookmarks 2012 1B An immaculate house is the sign of a wasted life. 2B Love is not finding someone you can live with... Love is finding someone you cannot live without. 3B Lord, grant me patience, but hurry! 4B Happiness is not having everything you want, but wanting everything you have. 5B Love is like the five loaves & two fishes: It doesn’t start to multiply until you give it away. 8B Turn your face to the sun & the shadows fall behind you. (Maori proverb) 9B Rather light a candle than complain about the darkness. (Chinese proverb) 10B The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao-Tse) 14B The difference between a flower & a weed is a judgement. 15B Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing’s going to be all right. (Bob Marley) 16B Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans. (John Lennon) 18B God grant me the SERENITY... 19B The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing .*. only a person who risks is free. 21B One night I had a dream .*. carried you. (“Footprints”) 23B You’re never ready for what you have to do: You just do it. That makes you ready. 24B It takes both rain & sunshine to make a rainbow. 25B PEACE starts with a smile (Mother Teresa) 27B Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others … (J M Barrie) 33B How beautiful it is to do nothing, & then to rest afterward. (Spanish Proverb) 39B There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE. 40B The BEST ANTIQUE is an old friend. 42B If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man, but deteriorate the cat. (Mark Twain) 43B I should like to be the kind of person my DOG thinks I am. 45B AGE All this talk about age is foolish. When I’m a year older, everyone else is too (Gloria Swanson) 46B AGE is mostly a matter of mind: if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter (M Twain) 47B You are the sunshine of my life. 48B The best & most beautiful things in life. are felt with the heart (H. Keller) 49B Home is where the CAT is. 100B Life is short. Eat your PUDDING first. 101B Dogs leave PAWPRINTS on our hearts. 102B A TEACHER takes a hand, opens a mind, touches a heart. 103B To TEACH is to touch a life for ever. 104B FRIENDSHIP isn’t a big thing; it’s a million little things. 105B A HUG is the best gift; one size fits all, & they’re easy to exchange. 106B Aim for the moon - even if you miss, you may land among the stars. 107B I’m smiling; you’re my BROTHER - I’m laughing, .... 108B Always my MOTHER, forever my FRIEND 109B Always my DAUGHTER, forever my FRIEND. 110B Take revenge. Live long enough to be a problem to your children. 111B GRANDMAS are antique little girls. 112B Grandads are recycled little boys. 113B MOTHERS hold our hands a while, our hearts for ever. 114B Always my SISTER, forever my FRIEND. 115B Always my FATHER, forever my FRIEND. 116B Always my SON, forever my FRIEND. 117B True FRIENDS are like good BOOKS. They may not always be with you, but you know where they are when you need them. 118B Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Sing like nobody’s listening. Live like it’s heaven on earth. 119B A NURSE is an angel in sensible shoes. 120B You don’t stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing. 121B I wish I was a GLOW WORM, A glow worm’s never glum… Cos how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum? 123B You are thought of with love & remembered in prayer. 124B FOOTBALL (much more important a matter than life and death) B Shankly 127B Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your children. 128B YORKSHIRE MOTTO- see all, hear all , does owt for nowt etc.. 129B FRIENDS are like ANGELS. You don’t need to see them to know they are there. 130B Make God Laugh: Tell Him your plans 131B The work will wait for you to show your child a RAINBOW. The rainbow won’t wait for your work... 132B We are not human beings having a spiritual experience We are spiritual beings having a human experience. 133B What is DEATH…nothing at all…(Scott Holland) 134B Life is not how fast you run or how high you climb; It’s about how well you bounce (Australian saying) 135B Behind every successful man stands an astonished mother! 136B But I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now. (Bob Dylan) 137B Forget your troubles and dance. (B Marley) 138B Approach love & cooking with reckless abandon (Dalai Lama) 139B Wait patiently, pray tenderly, forgive generously. 140B Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery. Today is a gift - That’s why it’s called the Present 141B Four wheels good; Two wheels better. 142B It’s hard to be as fit as a fiddle when you’re shaped like a cello! 143B The Boss isn’t always right, but he’s always The Boss.

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