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15 Short Quotes About Worrying (and How to Quit)

July 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

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There are so many more good quotes on letting go of worry and focusing on what you can control in life. I don’t think this will be the last post on quotes about worrying (and letting go!) for me.

It seems like worrying has become part of my everyday life, and I’d really like to change it. Whenever I decide to change something, I look up some motivational quotes on the subject. Wise words seem to shift my focus, adjust my mood, and set me straight.

Although, before we get into the quotes, I have to preface this post, the main word in these quotes may be “worry,” but the theme is all about getting past the worry and living. Because I feel that while I’m worrying, I’m not truly living.

Quotes About Worry (and Letting Go!)

If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change. – Tony Gaskins

Worry is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere. – English Proverb

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Relax. Worry is infamous for being inaccurate. – Karen Salmansohn

Stop worrying about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right! – Unknown

Why worry. If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. – Walt Disney

Worrying means you suffer twice. – Newt Scamander (JK Rowling)

Worry is a misuse of the imagination. – Unknown

I know worrying works because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened. – Will Rogers

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. – Janis Joplin

Learn to let things you cannot control go. – Unknown

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles. – Unknown

Where focus goes, energy flows. – Unknown

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength. – Unknown

How to Adapt a Quote to Fit You

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I love the quote, “worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength’. However, it doesn’t quite fit me.

If a quote doesn’t quite fit, modify it for you & your life. I’m not saying tweak one word and then start selling the phrase, but I am saying that you can edit a sentence to appeal to your personal goals.

For instance, you could replace strength with joy, pleasure, peace, quiet, etc. I prefer the word joy instead. So I would write it: worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its joy, which fits my goals and ambitions more than the word strength.

Remember that if a quote doesn’t quite fit what you need or your situation, adapt it! Make the saying yours.

Do You Have More Quotes on Worrying (but Really Letting Things Go)?

Have you come across a good quote on worrying or letting things go? I’d love to hear it. Leave me a comment below!

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75+ Resilience Quotes For Your Planner

March 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Find 75+ Short (ish) quotes on resilience perfect for jotting down in your planner. Save some for later & share as many as you like.

I don’t know about you, but this year so far has been very stressful for me. Do you feel it too?

My word of the year may be ‘consistency’, but resilience was a close second choice. I light of current personal and world situations, I think the world could do with some motivational resiliency quotes.

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What is Resilience?

Wouldn’t you like the ability to bounce back when you encounter something hard? Resiliency isn’t just getting knocked down and continuing on the same path. I view resilience as adjusting your vision, tweaking your plan, making room for changes, and keep going on your desired course.

What Does Resilience Mean to you?

Dictionary.com: The power or ability to return to original form. That sounds to me like resilience is an action!

Whatever it means to you, I know I could do with some inspirational resilience quotations for my planner to remind me to keep going. So I searched all over the internet and found some fantastic resilience quotes perfect for your planner. Let me know which one is your favorite! And feel free to pin any quotes you like.

To help organize the different quotes – I separated them further into themes. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the topics I’ve chosen for the list of quotes about being resilient in the comments below.

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Mantras

It’s not just about quotes. Sometimes you need to see it and repeat it so you can develop resiliency.

Resilience – thriving amid adversity

I am resilient.

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Resilience Quotes – Dealing with Fear & Developing Courage

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -W Clement Stone

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather

“Truth be told, you will never really know just how strong and adamant you are unless adversity strikes. Then you learn courage, you build resilience, you learn to persevere, you build character.” — T. Whitmore

“No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience.” — Eric Greitens

Know that deep inside, you are resilient, brave and so much stronger and more powerful than your fears.

“I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance.” — Lee Ann Womack

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Overcoming Failure/Quitting

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. – Tony Robbins

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you didn’t even try. – Jack Canfield

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. – Muhammad Ali

The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

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Success

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be a failure. – Confucius

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. – Zig Ziglar

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. – Nelson Mandela

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

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Character/Strength

How do you act when things don’t go your way, or you experience setbacks? Quotes on developing a resilient character through developing strength.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. – Drew Barrymore

People do not lack strength, they lack will. – Victor Hugo

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. – Abraham Lincoln


Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. – Bob Marley

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect - Ralph Waldo Emerson | ChocolateMusings.com #quotes

Outlook

Our outlook on life makes a huge difference! Quotes on developing a resilient attitude

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. – Charles Dickens

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” ― Elizabeth Edwards

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” ― Elizabeth Edwards

“Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” — Janna Cachola

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Choice

These quotes highlight that being resilient may not come naturally, but we have a choice!

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

The only thing that can stop me, is me. – Unknown

Falling down is an accident. Staying down is a choice. – Unknown

Do what is right, not what is easy. – Roy T. Bennett

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – John C. Maxwell

Being weak is a choice, so is being strong. – Frank Zane

Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

Stop waiting for things to happen, go out and make them happen.

“Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.” — James G. Stavridis

“We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” ― Stephen Covey

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” ― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can’t take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action.” ― Ryder Carroll

Work

There will be obstacles – There will be doubters -There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. – Michael Phelps

Work gives your meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. – Stephen Hawking

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Future

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten Boom

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extra-ordinary destiny. – CS Lewis

The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation. – Unknown

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. – Buddha

Past

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it. – Mary J. Blige

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

One small crack doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means that you were put to the test and didn’t fall apart. – Unknown

Obstacles

Quotes about overcoming using resilience

Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. -Barbara Sher

The best view comes after the hardest climb.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

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Move Forward – Key to Resiliency

Just a little side note here – I think that moving forward despite what’s happened is the key to being resilient. These resilience quotes are particularly impactful to me.

Keep moving forward.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. – Thomas A. Edison

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ― Japanese Proverb

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further. – Thomas Carlyle

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Growth

No rain. No Flowers.

Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Unknown

Remember, when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow. – Unknown

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. – Jamais Cascio

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it. – Winston Churchill

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” ― Shane Koyczan

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Habit-Related Resilience Quotes

“Although most of us don’t spend time thinking about our thoughts, increasing your awareness of your thinking habits proves useful in building resilience.” — Amy Morin

“Change what you can, manage what you can’t.” — Raymond McCauley

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

I think that resilience can become a habit, changing how we react and come back after a setback is no minor feat, so it must be developed like a habit.

As you may know – I use my bullet journal to help me work on all sorts of habits. Breaking old ones and creating new ones. You can explore my habit posts here. I love these resilient/habit quotes and hope to find more in the future.

Summary

I hope these resilience quotes have motivated you to bounce back when you have a setback and keep moving forward. If you can’t change it, manage it.

I’d love to know which one of these resilience quotes is your favorite, and if you use any in your planner or bullet journal, tag me on Instagram.

Explore more ideas & inspiration on the blog!

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Find Your Inspiration (When It’s Lost)

August 8, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Find Your Lost Inspiration

I’m sure at one point in time you’ve lost your inspiration or creative muse. This month, my muses were all about helping you ‘find your inspiration’ because over the summer, I lost my inspiration. It felt like someone turned out the light on my creativity, and I’ve been clamoring to find that switch and turn it back on.

How I Lost My Inspiration

The last few months have been very dark – creatively. Starting with a week’s horrible sickness for my entire family the end of May, followed by the end of school and subsequently, the end of our regular daily routine.

Though I love summer, the chaos that coincides with it wreaks havoc on my inspiration. I usually have an abundance of ideas, too many for me to implement. But this summer, all my ideas dried up, and I felt like I was in a desert searching for water.

Maybe it was that I lost the everyday regimen of school day structure or if it was that the kids were home more (and bickering more) or if work was particularly stressful this summer, but I was in a deep creative funk. I wanted to create, I wanted to draw and write and express myself, but I couldn’t find the motivation or the inspiration to do much of anything.

Ideas to Try – Where I Started

Knowing how to recover or get out of a funk is probably the most valued advice I could give or receive. Unfortunately, I have not found the ultimate answer to that puzzle, yet. When I figure it out, I will share it with you. However, there were several things I tried & found, so I’m sharing those with you today.

But what I did do, was let myself have time. Once I was ready, and I felt like I wasn’t forcing creativity, I started watching some Skillshare teachers and seeking inspiration.

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In my case, I could amend this fantastic quote by Dumbledor to say, “inspiration can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

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This month I’ve tried to focus on getting back into routine and creating order in my life. I laid out my planner using time blocks so I can organize my time.

Adding a section in my planner called “One Big Goal” – helped me focus on one big purpose for the month. I find that I lose my creativity if I let myself get too distracted and try to do everything at once.

All these efforts have helped restore my creativity, bit by bit.

Here are a few other things that helped me find my inspiration, again

I hope these things will help you find your inspiration, too!

Inspiration Muse #1

Kindle Paperwhite

One of my goals is to read a book per month (or more!). I love physical books, but don’t like taking them around with me. Reading on my phone became problematic because:

  1. It took too much battery
  2. I couldn’t see it in the daylight
  3. Other apps distract me
  4. Reading on the tablet was also problematic because of the battery usage (I never had any juice left to create after using it to read!).

My boss gave me a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday (thank you to my boss and thanks to husband for giving them that idea). And I LOVE it. It eliminates distraction while reading – no alerts or dings, pop-ups like my phone. The battery lasts like the energizer bunny. Reading in daylight is like reading a book – there’s no glare.

You can read in the bath. Yes, you read that right. It even recommended it on the packaging.

To explain how much I adore this new device, I’m going to channel Dr. Seuss:

You can read on a train, on a plane in a car or at a bar. On a bus? No distraction, only focus. Read outside or in a box, while you take off your socks. Even read in the bath (there’s no aftermath!). The backlight at night is simply a delight! Don’t forget that the device is very light.

-Me

Ok, I’ll stop. I’m excited to read all the Kindle books I’ve collected over the years and borrow many more from my library. If I connect Bluetooth to it, I can listen to my Audible books, too. If you can’t tell, I’m a fan.

You bet I have all of these books queued up!

Inspiration Muse #2

Number Stickers

My creation out of necessity. Because I hated writing numbers over and over again, and when I do, I ALWAYS get out of sequence. But I wanted to use time blocking in my planner, which requires writing the numbers again and again. I created them to fit precisely with a 5mm grid on matte sticker paper. 14 to a sheet – it covers two weeks.

I cut down the sticker to use only the hours in the day that I’m awake – but you could use it any way you want – to track sleep, to plan out your hourly activities or a typical day.

I also have a 1-31 number sticker that I used to create a monthly log. Find them both in my shop!

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Inspiration Muse #3

Skillshare

Skillshare is an online learning community where there are literally hundreds of classes taught by many individuals on a variety of subjects. I found it over a year ago, and LOVE it. I just counted and I’ve watched more than 125 classes (some more than once). There’s more than just painting, art and lettering. There are SO many choices. It is one of my most favorite places online.

Try for free – watch as many classes as you like. If you’re new or already subscribe to Skillshare, find me over there – @ChocolateMusingsCreates

Some of my favorite classes:

Liz Kohler Brown – Create Cuttings on your iPad – if you have ProcreateApp on an iPad, she is THE artist to follow. She teaches so many courses and I have learned so much.
Kolbie Blume – Beginner’s Galaxy – I recently found her and simply adore her watercolor classes.
Kiki B – Drawing Consistent Letters with Basic Supplies – Taught by one of my friends (we met lettering – ok, we’ve never actually met, but nonetheless she’s my friend). Want to learn how to create letters from scratch? This is an insanely useful class.
Lisa Long – 3D lettering in procreate – making letters look 3D and simply amazing.
Cat Coquillette – Modern Watercolor Techniques – Seriously inspiring! I’ve learned so much from her.
Yasmina Creates – her Doodle Magic class, Thumbnail Sketching, Anyone Can Watercolor, You Can Draw Anything!

Skillshare inspires me when my creativity flows freely, what’s more, is that it encourages creativity when there is but little more than a small trickle or drip of my inspiration.

Here are some of My Favorite Skillshare Projects

Every single one of these projects (plus all the others I’ve done) has inspired some other thing down the line. It’s ok to experiment, it’s ok to find something new to try. Don’t limit yourself.

In Summary: To Find Your Inspiration & Reignite your Creativity – Try Some of These Things:

  • Give yourself time
  • Don’t force it
  • Follow a daily schedule
  • Change your daily schedule
  • Create a time to focus
  • Eliminate distractions
  • Choose one thing
  • Solve a problem (like my number stickers solved a problem for me)
  • Learn something new that has an assignment at the end – so you feel compelled to create

I hope my muses have inspired you in some way. I’d love to know what muses you turn to, and which ones provide the most inspiration.

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9 Motivational Shakespeare Quotes for Your Planner

May 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

9 Motivational Shakespeare Quotes for Your Planner + Bonus Quotes

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To celebrate “Talk Like Shakespeare Day” on April 23rd, the April Instagram Challenge consisted of a few favorite Shakespeare quotes. Who knew that Shakespeare was also a motivational speaker? Woven into his tragedies and comedies, you find snippets of inspiration for every day – find a few of my favorite Motivational Shakespeare Quotes + some of my other favorites below.

I know I’m not the only quote geek in the planner world, so I wanted to share a few of the motivational quotes I revisited recently. It’s fun to use quotes in your planner or for practice if you’re working on penmanship or learning how to letter. That’s what I did in April!

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Add Quotes for Motivation & Handlettering Practice

I find that adding quotes to my planner reminds me to slow down and remember what’s important to me. A bonus is practicing my lettering!

Throughout April, I used many of these quotes to develop my pointed pen techniques. If you’re just getting into the world of lettering, a pointed pen is usually a pen with a removable tip called a nib that you dip in ink. Similar to what they did in the times of Shakespeare. Comparable to brush pens, you can get beautiful thick and thin lines.

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I feel that writing with a pointed pen is so therapeutic. Some people love the sound of a scratchy nib on paper as they write. What I love is the way the page feels after I write and the ink is dry. The dried ink leaves a raised texture on the paper. And I love it.

I prefer an oblique pen to a straight pen with a nib. (See ‘forever and a day’ picture above.) All I have is a simple one, right now. I’d love to buy a fancy one someday soon. Once you get the hang of pressing down for thick lines and lifting for thin lines, the words become mesmerizing. When I created the Mother Theresa Printable a few months ago, I kept blobbing the ink on the first two lines. After I got past those lines, I was finally able to write the entire thing, and it was so incredibly satisfying!

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Sometimes it takes several tries to get it the way you want it. As you can see above, it took me quite a few tries to write “to thine own self be true” with a glass nib pen. Learning & messing up is just part of the process.

Pointed Pen vs. Brush Pens

I find that the technique for using a pointed pen translates back and forth for brush pens and pointed pens. You press harder when you want a thick stroke, and use the tip of the pen/nib for thin strokes. If you need some fantastic quotes to try with your brush pens or pointed pen, try some Shakespeare.

Everything feels fancier when you write Shakespeare’s words. ~Tricia @ Chocolate Musings. In case you’re wondering, that’s an original quote by me. You could put that in your planner too if you wanted.

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Here are a few Motivational Shakespeare Quotes to include in your planner:

All That Glitters is Not Gold. – The Merchant of Venice

Be not afraid of greatness. (You could end it right there if you wanted – but it continues)

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. – Twelfth Night

Nothing will come of nothing. – King Lear

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This above all: To thine own self be true. – Hamlet

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – All’s Well That Ends Well

No legacy is so rich as honesty. – All’s Well That Ends Well

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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – Julis Caesar

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. – King John

We know who we are, but know not what we may be. – Hamlet

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All of these quotes remind me to pursue amazing things in my life, but the last one is a distinct reminder never to forget where I genuinely want to go and not to sell myself short. Which one is your favorite? Let me know in the comments below! I’d also love to hear if you have a different favorite quote!

Bonus Quotes

I couldn’t stop there. Some of my favorite Shakespeare quotes wouldn’t classify as motivational, but some words speak powerfully to me, and I want to share them with you.

  • Forever and a day. – Taming of the Shrew (I added a twist to this one, too)
  • The course of true love never did run smooth. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • If music be the food of love, play on. The Twelfth Night
  • What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – Romeo and Juliet
  • They do not love that do not show their love. – Gentlemen of Verona
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I want to paint the quote ‘forever and a day’ above my bed on my wall. Not now, but when we move. I’m secretly making plans for the new house we will eventually buy, and collecting quotes is definitely part of that plan! I think instead of just saying ‘forever and a day’ I would paint “I will love you forever and a day.”

Which ones would you include in your planner or on your wall?

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