A Quoteworthy Book

This is my purple quotes book.

I love quotes that inspire me, make me laugh or make me think. I used to jot down on a slip of paper a quotation that I liked or that I read in a book whenever I came across one worthy of remembering. It never failed that when I wanted to recall or share a quote, I couldn’t find the piece of paper I wrote it on.

While watching the movie A Walk to Remember several years ago, during the scene where Jamie gave her boyfriend the book filled with quotes that her mother had written in, a spotlight flooded my head. (Sorry, spotlights are synonymous with Pringle residents because of the tongue-in-cheek organization who uses them, known as the Pringle Poachers.) Watching that scene solved my problem of always searching for quotes I wanted to keep but could never keep track of.

After the movie maybe during, I don’t remember, but it would be like me to stop a movie for something like this I dug out my box of brand new journals (yes, now you know my disease I have an addiction, and it’s called buying new journals unnecessarily) in search of one that seemed fitting for collecting quotes and I started filling up the book as soon as I got it out. I think while I watched the rest of the movie.

It’s purple because that’s my favorite color. To date, it’s not quite half filled. I record my favorite quotes here along with poems I like, mantras, advertising slogans, prayers I’ve heard or read, my favorite Bible verses, lines from books I’ve read and things I’ve heard people say that I thought was worth noting. Initially, I didn’t credit the person who said the quote because I thought it would only be for my use but now I’ve realized that was kind of dumb, so I try to include who said the quote.

I like to write in different ink colors. I guess because I’m just weird.

I still jot down a quote on scrap paper if I’m not at home when I discover a quote worth remembering, but now I make an effort to put it in a place I’ll always find it until I can write it in the book. That would be my checkbook, since I always carry my purse around unless I leave it someplace, and I’m always having to write checks for things, like new journals.

Here are a few quotes from my purple quotes book: 

• Remember the little things. One day they will become the big things. One of my first entries in the book, so I don’t know who said it.
• Whatever your 100% looks like, give it. (Advertising slogan)
• Ask yourself, Am I using my mental ability to make history or am I using it to merely record history made by others? & Give people more than what they expect to get. (From the book, The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.)
• Always remember you are making memories. my grandmother, Gayle W. Newberg
• I’m tough, ambitious, and know exactly what I want. –singer, Madonna
• You won’t find your calling on a cell phone. Mike’s Hard Lemonade carton
• That which doesn’t kill me will only make you laugh a quote I tweaked to make it more fitting to my life.
• Life is short. Stay awake for it. quote on my girlfriend’s travel mug
• The best thing to do with a rotten day is throw it out because they stink up the place. something I tell my kids.

Quotes have been a great source of encouragement, inspiration, and sometimes just entertainment. It’s cheap therapy. Something else that’s weird about me.