MY COTTAGE DIARY: Alda Ellis

Monday, January 28, 2013

Alda Ellis - Part Two

This is the book I was looking for yesterday. It was right under my nose! (Which probably explains why I couldn't find it.) :O) Alda's books have a wholesome, Christian slant. They are lovely to look at and full of good ideas. She has written many others that I don't own.

Oh, that's a cozy picture above! The back of the book:

Must dash back to work, but wanted to share this book.

Happy Monday!
Bess

Quotes to Ponder

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts-- just mere thoughts-- are as powerful as electric batteries-- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. (The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Words spoken are light as air. Words written are always there. (Victoria March 1998)

"I'm well! I'm well! I feel-- I feel as if I want to shout out something-- something thankful, joyful!" (The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age. (Robertson Davies)

If one but gazes closely into a tiny flower of the pale blue Forget-Me-Not, what a chapter of loveliness is there! (An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter)

It was her business to be satisfied-- and certainly her temper to be happy. (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

BECAUSE NICE MATTERS (Nancy Lindemeyer)

When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different-- something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. (Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery)

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them. (Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery)

"Last time I was up this way that tree was kind of drooping and discouraged. Grown trees act that way sometimes, same's folks; then they'll put right to it and strike their roots off into new ground and start all over again with real good courage." (The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett)

To lift before You a little song of joy in the midst of trouble raises me up from the death grip of self-concern. (Enter the Open Door by Ann Conner)

I now know with a conviction beyond all doubt that the biggest problem you and I have to deal with--in fact, almost the only problem we have to deal with--is choosing the right thoughts. (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie)

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
(Marcus Aurelius)

Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, was the most devastating pessimest in English literature. He was so sorry that he had been born that he wore black and fasted on his birthdays; yet, in his despair, this supreme pessimist of English literature praised the great health-giving powers of cheerfulness and happiness. "The best doctors in the world," he declared, "are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman." (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie)

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your minds with thoughts that soar and sing. (How to stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie)

AND MORE

"Papa is always thinking about other people and he's always happy. I've got to stop thinking about myself so much-- about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet." (Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace)

She was surprised how much it helped unhappiness not to give in to it. (Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace)

"...it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do." (Captain Jim from Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery)