Hello my lovely readers!! Happy Wednesday and Happy Birthday to meeeee! I love getting to do a birthday blog every year, so here we go again. For 21 we did 21 facts most people don't know about me, 22 was the 22 most influential people in my life, and here we are at 23...the quotes I live by. Some of these quotes need no explanation, but I wanted to tell you a little more about why the others made the list. I hope you enjoy some of my favorite quotes, and maybe they'll become some of your favorites too!
1. "Live Colorfully" ~*The Late Great* Kate Spade
This Phrase is just an iconic Kate Spade moment and it will never be forgotten
2. "The Higher the Heels the Closer to Heaven"
3. "I love you a bushel and a peck ... and a hug around the neck" ~Ellen Anna Clancy Pickering aka Gammaw
This is a phrase my Gammaw and I have shared for years to tell each other we love each other. When I was little, we were together and she was singing the song “I love you a bushel and a peck” to me and it just stuck. She always says I love you a bushel and a peck and I respond and a hug around the neck. No one can really remember exactly when it started though.
4. "Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance" ~ Coco Chanel
5. "She is clothes in strength and dignity" ~Proverbs 31:25
This is actually the bible verse I associate with my designs because I think it embodies what I strive for perfectly.
6. "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and more loved than you'll ever know." ~A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
7. "A girl should be two things: Classy and Fabulous." ~Coco Chanel
8. "Keep your heels, head, and standards high." ~Coco Chanel
This is actually where my sign off “keep your heels as high as your standards” came from!
9. "Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It's movement, design, and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we'd like to be." ~Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl)
This has long standing be my favorite quote since I watched Gossip Girl in High school it put into words everything I felt about fashion and how I wished people saw what I did.
10. "It is better to do and not ask than to ask and not do" ~James Thomas Pickering aka Daddy
A quote that has come in handy more than once, just not when I use it against him.
11. "Playing dress up begins at age five and never truly ends." ~Kate Spade
12. "New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself." ~Joan Didion
13. "Choose every day to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love." ~Alison Malee
14. "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else." ~P.T. Barnum
15. "Love never fails." ~1 Corinthians 13
16. "I am who I am and I am going to love myself, no ComPROMISE" ~Nathaniel Buzolic
This quote I heard at LEAP many years ago and it has always stuck with me. Whenever I feel inadequate, I look in the mirror and repeat this quote to myself until I can believe it.
17. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." ~Lyndon B. Johnson
18. "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. " ~C.S. Lewis
19. "Everything is going to be okay in the end if its not okay its not the end" ~John Lennon
20. "What is done in love is done well." ~Vincent Van Gogh
21. "You and Fearfully and Wonderfully Made" ~Psalm 139:14
22. "If it's worth doing it's worth doing right." ~John Anthony Clancy Sr. aka “grandpa” my great grandpa
A quote that every Clancy and Pickering has only heard a few thousand times over the past century because hard work and perfection are the expectation
23. "Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered." ~Giorgio Armani
I leave you with one parting thought..what quotes do you live by and is it an accurate representation of who you are?
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