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Quotations That Speak To Me and For Me

articulated verbally or on paper. The more putting this in my mouth. I should just
BY GAIL JOKERSt I considered this, I realized I had amassed apply it directly to my hips.”
a trove of quotations—from lighthearted And as someone who enjoys tinkering
Few people would argue with the saying to serious—that aptly speak for me as well with words, I have related only too well
“A man is known by the company he keeps.” as to me. to an apologetic quotation dating back to
But I contend you can know people just as For instance, Eleanor Roosevelt’s “You 17th century France: “I would have writ-
well by the quotations that crop up in their must do the thing you think you cannot do” ten a shorter letter, but I did not have the
conversation. Those phrases provide equally has been a steadfast companion whenever time.” It takes patience to hone words
clear insight into character. I have had to tackle projects I have dreaded to mean what you want them to say as
For example, while I was talking with a or felt incompetent to handle. According to concisely and engagingly as possible.
friend about changing my mind on a subject Roosevelt, “you gain strength, courage and Allotted word counts force professionals
I had considered closed, my friend replied, confidence by every experience in which you to do that. So do most online comment
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so really stop to look fear in the face.” Without sections. But unless under that type of
one ought not to reject it merely because it doubt, she is right. constraint, few people strive to tighten their
comes late.” I connected with this idea so strongly, I prose by eliminating unnecessary verbiage,
I was so impressed by the truth in that had the words etched into a remembrance myself included.
one sentence, I committed it to mem- rock to post by my front door. For the One surprising thing I have learned
ory, though not before my friend admitted rock’s other side, my husband chose a more is that many quotations I assumed were
he could not take credit for its original- lyrical type of message. His consisted of attributable to only one individual often
ity. As he noted, the wording belonged to the closing lines from one of his favorite were not. Dig back far enough in history,
Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the poems, “The Spell of the Yukon,” by the and you may find earlier incarnations with
Supreme Court of the United States from British-Canadian author Robert Service: phrasing that varies slightly from what you
1939 to 1962. Ever since then, Frankfurter’s “It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder, have come to companion with.
quotation has come to mind when I have It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.” That is okay, too, since it’s not who said
had to alter a stance I have taken after On a humorous note, this comment the words, or exactly how the message was
receiving more accurate information. from a Mary Tyler Moore sitcom episode phrased, that matter as much as the truth
Like many other quotations I have squir- resonated with me and still expresses my within the quotation itself. After all, that is
reled away for future use, it translated into feelings when I’m tempted by an especially why we fell in love with it and made it our
words sentiments that I had felt but never delectable dessert: “I don’t know why I’m own in the first place. MSN

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