“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that – one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.” –Mark Twain
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
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“”Heirloom” is knitting code for “This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief. “ –Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” –Francis Bacon
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“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. “ –Douglas Pagels
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“Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.” –Emily Miller
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“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” –Phyllis Diller
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“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” –Barbara Jordan
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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; home-keeping hearts are happiest.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds it’s morning and is refreshed.” –Kahlil Gibran
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“Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself!” –Unknown