The Book of Auntie Carol-Isms

The Book of Auntie Carol-Isms & Other Famous Quotes

A very special thanks to Lindsay Boivin for making this book a reality.

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Hello Jesse, This book was created for you. Think of it as a way to help navigate your way through college and beyond as you embark on the next chapters in your ‘Book of Life’. I hope that this book can be a tool to help guide you along the way. Having more independence and making responsible (and a few not so responsible) decisions about your future and knowing you have the security of your family behind you is monumental.

What I have learned in my 66 years is that life changes course often, but it is important to adjust. That is the true key to managing your life-the ability to adapt. I started writing down my “isms” (as you know, there are many of them!); referring to them often and passing them along when talking to others (you are a recipient!). I recite them because I believe in them-and hope you do to.

I thought it would be a good idea to capture many of them and put them in a book for you.

Love,

Auntie Carol // 2020

Note: Some of these ‘isms’ may not have been created by me, but am taking credit for them!

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THIS IS THE HARDEST TIME

IN YOUR LIFE. -You have to figure out who you are, what you want to become, and figure out how you are going to achieve this.

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YET, THIS IS THE BEST TIME

IN YOUR LIFE. -You get to figure out who you are, what you want to become, and how you are going to achieve this.

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-AUNTIE CAROL

“You attract more bees with honey than you do with vinegar.”

-MY GRANDMA FAY

“Better to have and not need then to need and not have.”

-MORT FINK; INSURANCE SALESMAN

“Do not judge a person until you walk in their shoes.”

-A SMART PERSON

“You cannot judge a book by its cover.”

-A SMART PERSON

“There is only one you.

Be good to yourself.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“Never say mean words out of anger. Your anger will pass.

But your mean words can scar a person for life. So use kind words or be silent.”

-A SMART PERSON

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Your body is a TEMPLE. Treat it with CARE. (and I know you do!)

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“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong.

The key is to never stop doing right.”

“When you talk on the phone-smile.

It comes through in your voice.”

-AUTHOR ANGIE THOMAS

-AUNTIE CAROL

“Be proud of yourself.

Stay humble.

Don’t settle.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“You never go wrong when you take the high road - it’s less crowded up there.”

-GAYLE KING

FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOSSES:

“If you want a horse, don’t ask for a pony.”

“Don’t go down the rabbit hole.”

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-GREG LENSKI

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GIVE A MAN A FISH AND HE EATS FOR THE DAY. TEACH HIM HOW TO FISH AND HE EATS FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. 11

“Remember-the worst thing someone can tell you is ‘No’.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“Life is like a checkbook. You cannot keep making withdrawals.

Every now and then, you have to make a deposit.”

-CARD FOUND IN A LAKE GENEVA, WI GIFT SHOP.

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-AUNTIE CAROL

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

-A SMART PERSON

“Do what makes you happy and gives you joy.”

“Your parents gave you a smart brain.

It is up to you to know how to use it.”

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

“You have to know where you’re going.

You can’t always look forward, you still have to look in the rearview mirror”

-AUNTIE CAROL

-A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER

-ALBERT EINSTEIN

-AUNTIE CAROL

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-NIKE

IN BUSINESS: BUSINESS: BUSINESS: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

-A SMART PERSON

“Say ‘we” more that ‘I’.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“Don’t throw good money after bad.”

-A SMART PERSON

“Someone’s always going to be better than you, and that has kept me humble. When I haven’t remembered that-it blows up in my face.”

-MR. CHANG

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INVESTING:

ON INVESTING:

INVESTING: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

-AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE

“The stock market will do either of these 3 things. It will go up, go down or stay the same.”

-MY GOOD FRIEND RUTH’S FATHER

“Don’t be afraid to start over.

This time you are not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.”

-A SMART PERSON

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ON LIFE

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”

-REINHOLD NIEBUHR

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IN GENERAL “It’s a great day! I woke up.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“You die once, but you live every day.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“Live life to the fullest, but do it responsibly.”

-MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, IRMA CONRADS

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

-MAYA ANGELOU

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ON THE FLIP

SIDE

“On a deathbed, no one is known to have said that they wanted to spend more time at the office.”

-A SMART PERSON

“Pretend you are attending your own funeral. What will you hear people saying about you?”

-A RABBI

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“You can always add. You can never take away.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

“Have all your ingredients out and ready. Worst thing is to find out you are missing something after you started cooking.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

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-A FOOD TECHNOLOGIST I WORKED WITH

O N E AT I N G R I G H T:

“Garbage in... garbage out.”

-AUNTIE CAROL

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ON LOVE

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AND “I wear the pants in the family; she just tells me what color to wear.” -UNKY BUNKY

RELATION SHIPS

“The secret to a happy marriageJust say: ‘Yes dear’” -BRIAN FLANAGAN (MY CO-WORKER)

A wife will forgive and forget, but she’ll never forget what she forgave.

-AN OLD JEWISH PROVERB

A woman marries a man thinking he’ll change. A man marries a woman thinking she won’t change.

They are both wrong.

-A PSYCHOLOGIST

ON DANCI NG:

Learn the box step. It will save you embarrassment.

-AUNTIE CAROL

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Add your own Isms:

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YOU ARE AMAZING.

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THE END BEGINNING.

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