Quotes from Janice Thompson

Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Irish proverb

But you can't beat yourself up or compare yourself to others. Remember, the Bible says that the first will be last and the last will be first.

You're valuable to God...It doesn't matter what you look like or even what talents you have. He cherishes you. You're beautiful in his sight.

May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my grandmother's teeth. Irish proverb

For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile.

You don't have to primp for God. He thinks you're gorgeous, even on the bad hair days.

An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth— They'd been laid on a chair, He'd forgot they were there, Sat down, and was bitten beneath. Irish limerick

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

There, behind the eye of the camera, I was truly at peace.

when it came time for that once-in-a-lifetime shot of the bride and groom sealing the deal with a lengthy smooch, the groomsmen all lifted scorecards rating the kiss. Everything from a 9.5 to a 10.0.

a good marriage is like a good lasagna: only those involved actually know what goes into it.

If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: take two, and keep away from children.

I've got you figured out," he said. "You'll forge ahead and act like everything's okay when it's not. You're the kind to just keep going, to make sure everyone else is okay, even when you're not.

Finché c'è vita c'è speranza." As long as there was life, there was hope.

Greater are those who are with us than those who are against us.

May those who love us, love us. And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he cannot turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we may know them by their limping. Irish saying

I'm drowning--at home and at work. I want to give 100 percent on all fronts, but there are only so many 100 percents you can give before you realize there's nothing left.

C is for cookie. That's good enough for me. Cookie Monster

the self-assurance that God created you exactly like you are and loves you just the way you are.

Enthusiasm is like a fire that needs an occasional poke with a stick.

kind of forgotten that he was supposed to be my archnemesis. And every time I thought about Brock Benson coming to town, I realized that Drew and I now had something in common. Something big. I did my best to relax and think more clearly about all of this. Why see him as my competitor? Why not just view him as someone who understood my business and had similar goals?

My favorite exercise is a combination of a lunge and a crunch." I took a little nibble of a cookie. "It's called lunch.

In life, he who risks nothing, gains nothing.' Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as it were.

It's going to sound so cliché, but you've got to stop trying to fix everything." She put a hand up. "I know, I know—this coming from the fix-it queen. But you were never meant to hold all things together. Only God can do that.