Pam Farrel quotes

“Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.”
-- Pam Farrel

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“When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.”
-- Pam Farrel

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“A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.”
-- Pam Farrel

Source : Bill Farrel, Pam Farrel (2003). “Why Men and Women Act the Way They Do: The Reasons Might Surprise You”, p.15, Harvest House Publishers

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“Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.”
-- Pam Farrel

Source : Pam Farrel (2015). “7 Simple Skills for Every Woman: Success in Keeping Everything Together”, p.175, Harvest House Publishers

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“Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us the person is doing it on purpose-just to be irritating. Usually, that is far from the truth”
-- Pam Farrel

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“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.”

“Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.”

“Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.”

“When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.”

“I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.”

“Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.”

“He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.”

Source : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

“I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.”

“Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.”

“I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.”