Marna Scarry-Larkin:
CLASS OF 1976
Southwest Dekalb High SchoolClass of 1976
Decatur, GA
Marna's Story
Marna is from Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Marna's schools include Southwest Dekalb High School. Marna works(ed) at Language Learning And Speech Center.
Music Marna likes includes Adele, Once, Blake Shelton. Books Marna likes include My Stroke of Insight, The 36 Hour Day, Siblings Without Rivalry. Movies Marna likes include Brokeback Mountain, The Wizard of Oz, The Tapping Solution. TV shows Marna likes include The Big Bang Theory.
One of Marna's favorite quotes is:"You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. - Carl Jung
"Life is not always fair and neither are people, ourselves included...We can seek amends when others treat us unfairly, ask for redress, and if that doesn't work, we let go and our hearts do not close."
--Dr. David Ricco, The Five Things We Cannot Change...and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
If you have the choice of being "right" or being "kind", be kind, it will make all the difference. Dyer
"There's an old proverb that states, if you want something to survive and flourish, call it a flower; if you want to kill it, call it a weed."
"All the art of living
lies in a fine mingling of letting go
and holding on." -- Havelock Elli
"Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the longer it dwells, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle
"Change will occur when the pain of change is less than the pain of remaining the same." Rayburn Jack
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." –Alan Cohen
"Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT:
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." Nelson Mandela, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
"When you have the courage to change your beliefs and behaviors so that you speak your truth, and dare to cultivate pleasure instead of stress, you have the power to create a life of unbridled joy, unlimited abundance, and vibrant health." -- Dr. Christiane Northrup
"What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I think today."
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Gaston: [flicking through the pages of Belle's book] How can you read this? There's no pictures!
Belle: [laughs] Well, some people use their imagination.
Gaston: [tossing the book aside] Belle, it's about time you got your
head out of those books and paid attention to more important things. Like me.
The whole town's talking about it. It's not right for a woman to read.
Soon she starts getting "ideas", and "thinking"-
[singing] Tale as old as time, true as it can be. Barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly. Mrs. Potts
Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicolas Chamfort
Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
"Anything is possible, and miracles are happening now."
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
"The qualities we forgive in another are qualities we have long judged in ourselves. Forgiveness heals us back into our hearts." --Stephen Levin
"There's an old proverb that states, if you want something to survive and flourish, call it a flower; if you want to kill it, call it a weed."
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
"Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy." --Charles Fillmore (Unity
Resentment is like acid, eating away at the vessel it is stored in.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Life is not always fair and neither are people, ourselves included...We can seek amends when others treat us unfairly, ask for redress, and if that doesn't work,we let go and our hearts do not close." --Dr. David Ricco, The Five Things We Cannot Change...and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights
Friends who make you sing
And stars to help you find your place
Music, hope and amazing grace.
Mary Chapin-Carpenter
Your life story
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
It all depends on how we look at thing...Expand for more
s, and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
Lockwood-Huie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
A library is a hospital for the mind.
~ Anonymous ~
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Dalai Lama
"When life gives you lemons,
throw them back and demand chocolate."
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. (1873)
~ Louisa May Alcott ~
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~ Chinese proverb ~
Force yourself to reflect on what you read,
paragraph by paragraph.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Anonymous
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- - Irish Blessing
Lord, keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.
In this world, very few people are paid to be critics. Instead of criticizing, choose one of the plethora of problems of the world and do your part to solve it. MSL
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." — Aesop, ancient Greek moralist
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Les Brown
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart
Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on.
- - Anonymous
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there.
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
- Lee Iacocca
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- Hermann Hesse
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford
Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
- jlh
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- jlh".
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