Blog Quote Challenge #3

Today is the final installment of Quote Challenge Mondays!  I've been scouring through quotes I love and decided I wanted to end with a funny!  Because that's who I am!  Don't know who said this but ever since I saw this a few years ago, I've been living it! And someone once told me I never smiled!!  Wha...the what?!? Clearly he didn't know me at ALL!!  And besides, freshman year in college was HARD!  hahahahahahaha

 This quote make me laugh and smile every time, so I guess...DONE!!

Some days are not always easy, believe me!  But there are still a million reasons to smile in everyday! When a student "gets it", a random text, message, a laugh with a friend, even a commercial on T.V. or at a random stranger on the street!

So find a reason to SMILE today!!  And tell me about it in the comments below...so I can smile too!!

Since the blog quote challenge was passed on to me by Lana, I now get to pass it along to three more bloggers!  If these ladies wanna jump on board I'd love to see the quotes that inspire you!  For the Quote Challenge you share three favorite quotes, either in one post, or over three posts.

Amanda @ A Brownie World Blog

Leslie @ Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After

Military Wife and Pug Life

You can find more info about how the blog quote challenge works here!!

And a BIG THANKS again to Lana for tagging me!

I've had so much fun over these last few weeks and since I have about 303 favorite quotes, I think from time to time I'll post them!!

Have a great day!!

In case you missed yesterday's Friendship Day post, written by me and my bestie...linking up with Leslie and her sister, Valerie, you can read it here...hopefully it makes you smile too!!

Read my previous quote posts here:

Wonder

Kenny

Quote Challenge: I'm sure happy with what I got...

So excited to share my second favorite quote with you today!  Thanks again to Lana for tagging me in the Quote Challenge.  

Last week I shared a quote from my favorite book, Wonder.  Today I thought I'd share lyrics from one of my favorite songs (hope song lyrics count!) Kenny Chesney is my favorite country artist and he has so many great songs!!  

His song,  Never Wanted Nothing More is one of my favorites and the chorus really speaks to who I am.  This is me.  I have great family, awesome friends, a house I own and a job I love.  I'm happy being me.  I kinda love this little solitary life I have here. Sure my CP makes me a little bit different from everyone else, but I'm the only me I can be.   And I laugh... EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!!  Mostly at myself!!  What's the alternative? 

Take a listen to the full song!  It's super cute!!

Kenny Chesney sings the song, but the writer is an man named Chris Stapleton.  He's written a ton of songs for country artists and now is coming out into the spotlight as an artist himself.  My sister and I saw him at an acoustic show and he was awesome!  Check him out!!

Hope Kenny and I were able to get your Monday started on the right note!! (Yes...I'm a comedian..)

Have a great day!!

Quote Challenge Mondays

I was so excited when last Monday I was tagged by one of my blog buddies Lana from Two Teens and their Mama, for the Blogging Quote challenge!  The challenge asks bloggers to share three favorite quotes.  Either all three at once or in three separate posts.  Lana has been sharing her quotes over three separate Mondays, so I am going to be doing the same.  And also, maybe because I have lots of favorite quotes and weeding through them is taking some time!  HA!

There are so many quotes that I love!  From the funny, to the serious....quotes from books, movies, song lyrics and others that I've just seen online!!

The first quote I'm sharing today is from one of my most favorite books!  It comes from Wonder by R.J Palacio. Wonder is a beautiful story of a young boy who was born with facial deformity.  The book chronicles his fifth grade school year...his first in a mainstream school.  Here, he learns to navigate this place,  meet new friends, which is sometimes hard and show everyone that he really is just an ordinary kid.   It's billed as a book for kids and young adults, but in all honesty, it's a book everyone can enjoy.

In the book Auggie's  English teacher, Mr. Browne begins each month of the school year with a precept.  According to Mr. Browne, "Basically, a precept is anything that helps guide us when making decisions about really important things."   It can be a quote, motto, a line from fortune cookie...anything that's a motivator, guiding you to live the best life.

The book begins in September, and his first precept is this:

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This is the first of many precepts throughout the book but the book is centered around this concept to #choosekind in all you do. I try to teach my students this and do this in my own life.  Is this always easy?  No!  Even as an adult it's not!  But I try my best to remember this in so many situations. 

 There's another quote I like to keep in mind that kind of goes along with this.  I don't know it exactly, but it's something about smiling at strangers...because this might be the only smile they see all day!  So I do this too.  Sometimes people are taken aback by it (which is sad!) but other times, I get the feeling it makes their day!

So Choose Kind today...and if you haven't read Wonder yet, add it to your summer reading list.  It's a book for EVERYONE!  And read more of my thoughts on the book here!  Mr. Browne's Precepts have also been made into a book of their own!  So many great little tidbits about life!!

Thanks Lana for tagging me in this challenge!!

Over the last two Mondays I've also been recapping the Create 28 Summer Looks.  I'm pushing that until Wednesday, so come on back for those! And I'll be back tomorrow with my weekend recap!

Have a happy Monday!!