Beth Hoffman Quotes

#1. What's the difference between eccentric and crazy?'

She lifted her hands above her head, tapped her zills together, and danced out the door. From over her shoulder she laughed and called out, 'Nobody knows!

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#2. Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

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#3. Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters. I believe it's important that we leave our communities in better shape than we found them.

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#4. That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

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#5. People is wise 'cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience - from knowin' each day is a gift and accepting it with gladness. You read a whole lot of books, and readin' sure has made you smart, but ain't no book in the world gonna make you wise.

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#6. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

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#7. Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.

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#8. But if you have so much fun, then why don't you get together more than once a month?'

She looked at me like a wise old owl and winked. 'Do something too often and it stops being special.

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#9. Murdering anything is just plain criminal, but a Southerner murdering a magnolia? Well, that's an unforgivable sacrilege against nautre and the South.

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#10. 1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us"
2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest"
3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty

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#11. Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.

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#12. Oh Cecelia, you would have loved my grandmother, Miz Goodpepper said, dunking a cookie into her wine. She was so alive and full of original ideas, especially for that era. While other women were busy being proper, she was busy cultivating her spirit.

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#13. In some ways my life in Willoughby had begun to fade, much the same way a nightmare loses its grip when you find the courage to reach out in the darkness and turn on the light.

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#14. But even so, I wondered
how well do we really ever know someone?

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#15. Wisteria is my favorite flowering vine. Do you know why?'
I shook my head. 'No, ma'am.'
'Because it's strong
just like me.

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#16. I don't give a chicken's sorry ass who taught you. I just want to play.

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#17. Northerners are exactly like their weather - cold and boring. And I swear, none of them has one iota of etiquette or propriety.

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#18. Yes. Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters.

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#19. It's how we survive the hurt in life that brings us strength and gives us beauty.

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#20. When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready your spirit knows you are.

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#21. Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.

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#22. She wore her sadness on the outside, like a heavy winter coat.

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#23. You can't run around town tryin' to get even with every person who does you wrong. Ain't enough hours in the day to do that. Besides, two wrongs don't make a right.

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#24. Then human mind holds tight to those things it can't reconcile.

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#25. Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.

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#26. Well, looks like you won't be reaching nirvana anytime soon."
She pushed a stray lock of hair off her forehead and sniffed. "Yes, I suppose that's true. I guess I'll just have to settle for a trip to Idaho.

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#27. Don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.

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#28. I knew the flight into the crazy skies of love would always outweigh the uncertainty of days that didn't yet belong to me.

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#29. Dont go wastin all them bright tomorrows you aint even seen yet by hangin on to what happened yesterday.Let go Child. Just breathe out and let go- oletta

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#30. After explaining how a pearl is made she said: It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and give us our beauty.

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#31. You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!

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#32. C'mon, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big. Buck Preston to CeeCee's neighbor, Miz Goodpepper, in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

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#33. They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.

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#34. It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

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#35. Lucille always loved a strong breeze. She said it was nature's way of blowing away our sorrows.'
Just then another gust of wind whipped around us. Aunt Tootie smiled. I smiled too.

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#36. It's what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us.

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#37. I wondered if I'd ever be so lucky to have a girlfriend I'd grow old with, a girlfriend who knew my secrets, my fears, my hopes
and loved me anyway.

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#38. A purple velvet sofa is a gals symbol of freedom.

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#39. You can't see the whole sky from one window.

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#40. Ain't no sun in the kitchen without your face lookin' up at me.

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#41. I want to work really hard, that's the only thing I know how to do. I also know that I have a ton more to learn. If I'm not in an environment where I'm always learning, I don't want to be there.

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#42. If an older man ever sweeps you off your feet, just get up and run away as fast as you can." I

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#43. Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.

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#44. One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.

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#45. A small patch of sunflowers came into view. Dozens of tall stalks topped with heavy golden flower heads swayed in they hot breeze. From a distance they looked like a group of ladies with their heads hung low, as if embarrassed that they'd arrived at a party wearing identical hats.

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#46. I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it's more like a piece of us stays behind when we leave
a piece we can never reclaim, one that awaits our next visit and demands that we remember.

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#47. A strong breeze is natures way of blowing away our sorrows.

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#48. A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables

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#49. far too many people die with a heart thats gone flat with indiferance, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer amazing oppurtunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

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#50. Don't go wasting all them bright tomorrows you ain't even seen by hanging on to what happened yesterday. Let go, child. Just breathe out and let go.

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#51. Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.

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#52. Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.

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#53. Maybe that's what love does - smooths the hard edges of life, giving us a gentle place to land when we fall.

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#54. c'mon now, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big.

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#55. I find all men to be very much like wearing high-healed shoes
I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.

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#56. [She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn't what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.

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