Book of Mottoes for June 2019

 

Hey, everyone! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! Being that it's just about the end of June, I thought I would start a new monthly share.

This past month, I had my boys each start a Book of Mottoes as a part of their Language Arts. I first read about this from the Simply Charlotte Mason website, as something that Charlotte Mason herself had her students keep. I have also seen this called a Commonplace Book. Basically, it's a notebook where you write down quotes or sayings as you hear or read them, that speak to you. I really love this idea, so I decided to start my own Book of Mottoes!

As I have added to my own book, I realized that you could really get to know a person by looking at what they choose to keep in this book. So, I thought I'd share some of the sayings I collected throughout the month.

Mom's Book of Mottoes-taken throughout June 2019

"Duty makes us do things well;
love makes us do them beautifully."
~Zig Ziglar

"I am. I can. I ought. I will."
~Charlotte Mason

"Never back down! Never gonna quit!"
~Lanco (a country music band, from their song "Rival." Hubby and I love this song!)

"We need to take our mission, but not ourselves, seriously."
~Unknown

"One settles down into a sort of selfish seriousness, but one has to rise to a gay self-forgetfulness. Seriousness is not a virtue, seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend, or lapse, into taking oneself gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. Solemnity flows out of men naturally, but laughter is a leap. It's easy to be heavy, hard to be light. And Satan fell by the force of gravity."
~G.K. Chesterton

"Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do, and learn to love what must be done."
~Goethe