{"id":1952,"date":"2012-01-08T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2012-01-08T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T06:20:21","slug":"quotes-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/quotes-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading AffricanKeli<\/a> because she is in the One-Yard Wonders blog tour, and saw this quote above her stove:<\/p>\n

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had to immediately go and look it up, it seems to be a reordering of a quote made famous by Theodore Roosevelt, and in any case is awesome! <\/p>\n

Some other awesome Teddy quotes from wikiquotes:<\/p>\n

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. [I am so with him here!] It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone; but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end \u2014 why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing. There is a bit of homely philosophy, quoted by Squire Bill Widener, of Widener’s Valley, Virginia, which sums up one’s duty in life: “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Might as well be the stash buster’s mantra. Use what you have.<\/p>\n

Need something for dinner? Pantry diving. Use what you have.<\/p>\n

Don’t have enough time? Use what you have.<\/p>\n

Need more exercise? Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are. You’ve got shoes, start running. Park in the farthest spot, take the stairs.<\/p>\n

Waiting to start until everything is perfect? Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are. Get to it!<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to have to put that over my stove like AfricanKelli. Or somewhere. <\/p>\n

What, you were expecting something crafty? Maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n

What quotes are you finding inspiring right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading AffricanKeli because she is in the One-Yard Wonders blog tour, and saw this quote above her stove: Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. I had to immediately go and look it up, it seems to be a reordering of a quote made famous by Theodore Roosevelt, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-vu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}