funny bone

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I kind’a had a rough week, so I’m blanking on my #findthefunny Monday post today. Instead, I hope you don’t mind if I gather INSPIRATIONAL POSITIVITY from Shirley Temple (not the drink) and others.

I’m pretty sure by next week my glass will be filled through motivational osmosis and I’ll be back to–

Finding the Funny as Half-Full Evie – –

The best I can come up with right now is:

Try to sparkle, even when you’re not feeling shiny.

Here’s what more eloquent people have to say on the subject. I especially like the first one and the last one —

“Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.”  ~ Italian Proverb

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”  ~ Oscar Wilde

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”  ~ Author Unknown

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. “ ~ Voltaire

“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” ~ Ken S. Keyes,

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”  ~ Anne Frank

“I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.“ ~ Winston Churchill

“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.”  ~ Maurice Setter

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ Art Linkletter

“I’ve got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I’m blue. “ ~ Author Unknown

“The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it. “ ~ Will Foley

“Those who wish to sing, always find a song.  ~ Swedish Proverb

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”  ~ Alphonse Karr

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.  ~ Chinese Proverb

“If life gives you lemons, you make lemonade” ~ Author Unknown

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I’d like to express my thanks –
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~ Irving Berlin

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