Dana’s Avenue

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.  ~Irish Proverb

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.  ~Confucius, Analects

“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me.  Love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person.  Love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of.  Love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.”     ~Author Unknown

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. 

                                                                  ~Elbert Hubbard

If not for our insistence that things be the way we want them to be, we would be happy most of the time.  ~Richard Carlson, “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions. 

                                                                                                   ~Joey Adams

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.  It may weave a spell of nostalgia.  Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. 

                                                                                                            ~Augusta E. Rundel

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.  What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. 

~Dr. Seuss

We leave tonight for the States.  In honor of that, I’ve chosen this quote:

The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.  ~Henry J. Tillman