Feeling 40 - Bits of wisdom and advice that have shaped my first 40 years.

1.     Take a nap. – mom

2.     Love that comes easy will easily give up.

3.      Let it be.

4.      Blame them for nothing, but forgive them for everything.

5.     Any person is capable of doing anything under the right circumstances, even me.

6.     You are where you are by the choices you’ve made, or that you have allowed others to make for you – Linda Toupin

7.     Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.

8.     Work out.

9.     When things go wrong, I can have an event, or I can have a moment.

10.    Something good eventually comes from every good and honest effort.

11.   Wrong is wrong.

12.    There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

13.     You gotta bet big to win big.

14.  Hot tea is good for the soul.

15.    It is more fun to be thin.

16.   “Now we know, and knowing is half the battle.” – GI Joe

 17.  A little retail therapy can’t hurt.

18.   Go where you are celebrated and not tolerated.

19.   Diet food just feeds the cycle.

20.    Only brush the teeth you want to keep.

21.     The opportunity of a lifetime lasts only for the lifetime of the opportunity.

22.      You never get all green lights.

23.  “In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.” -Meister Eckhart

24.   “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock proof shit detector”  -Ernest Hemmingway

25.  ‎"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the
hard work you already did." ~~Newt Gingrich

26.  If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?  Nobody.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

27.    Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy, it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

28. I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

29.   "Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past." — Anne Lamott

30.   "I am all the ages I've ever been." — Anne Lamott

31.  "No" is a complete sentence." — Anne Lamott

32.   "The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you "
— Anne Lamott

33.   "Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting." — Anne Lamott

34.    It’s always a good idea to have an exit plan – Kristin Guile

35.  “You shall not pass” -Gandolph

36.   Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. Mary Kay Ash

37.    So many women just don't know how great they really are. They are vogue outside and vague on the inside. -Mary Kay Ash

38.  We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. -Mary Kay Ash

40.  “Guard your heart, it is the wellspring of life.”