Quotes From a Quotaholic

    Let me start this post out with a confession. Before I joined the world of social media, I used to tell my daughter that her friends on the internet weren’t “real” friends. It was hard for me to believe that you could be friends with someone that you never met, in some cases had never seen a photo of, and had never heard their voice. I think one of the signs of good parenting is being able to admit when you are wrong. Boy, was I ever wrong. I’m not sure what it says about me, but I consider my online friends to be my best friends. We discuss things, we cry for each other, and I feel closer to them than most of my local friends. It also helps that the majority of my cyber friends are as dog or cat crazy as I am. Most of my local friends just don’t get it. That’s okay; I don’t get a lot of the things they are into either. My cyber friends have never let me down and I trust them. That is one of the reasons that I loved going to the BlogPaws
conference. It felt like I was joining a group of my truly amazing friends. It is also why I wish I could attend the 2016 Blogville Awesome Retreat. I know more about what is going on in my blogger friends’ lives than I do most of my relatives’ lives. I say this to let you know that I truly do love and care about my readers and all of the bloggers that are my true friends.

   One of my newest friends is the author of Military Wife and Pug Life. If you haven’t discovered her blog yet, I can tell you that you are missing some great laughs. I want to thank her for nominating me to join this fun quote hop.

   I have to say this is much harder than I originally thought. Not because I had to find three quotes that I love, but because I am a certified “quotaholic” and picking three is probably the hardest thing I’ve done. These are not necessarily my three favorites but are simply three that spoke to me today. That is the thing about quotes, there is one for every mood that you experience.  Most of the quotes that I love are about positive thinking and laughter. That’s because to me those are the most important things in life next to love. So without further ramblings, here are my entries in the Quote Hop.

“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships are for.”

                                                                                ~William G.T. Shedd

 

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

                           ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever”

                     ~ Walt Disney

   Now, I would be remiss not to include my own quote that has been shared around the world and landed me in the 50 Famous Quotes about Dogs between Agatha Christie and Charles DeGaulle among other incredible places. People often feel the need to add “and cats” to this quote and that is okay except it is from my book, The Returns 2~ Showstoppers and is spoken by Miss Gitty, the wise old cat in the story.

“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”

                                                ~ M. K. Clinton

The rules of the Quote Hop are as follows:

1) Thank the blogger who nominated you.

2) Post three of your favorite quotes (this can be done all in one post or on three consecutive days). 

3) Nominate 3 bloggers and challenge them.

I am challenging Love is being owned by a Husky, My GBGV Life, and Murphy & Stanley. 

   You may have noticed that my Twitter share buttons only work if you remove my name at the beginning of the tweet. I have tried for months to correct this problem. It is obviously a glitch with my initials and Twitter. It is something that Twitter must address. Until they resolve the problem, I would appreciate you sharing my embedded tweet with your followers. For those of you that have tried to tweet or have assisted me in helping find the problem, I thank you.

                                                                           ♥Melissa

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— M. K.Clinton (@mk_clinton) August 14, 2015

   Today is the Pet Parade Blog Hop!  Join the fun with Rascal and Rocco, Bionic Basil’s Blog, Jan’s Funny Farm, Love is being owned by a Husky, and me to celebrate.  Grab our badge and hop along!