Peggy Toney Horton Quotes

It is very important that we have the capacity to love many different things or people at the same time. Our love should radiate like the sun, warming everything it touches.

My mother's laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.

The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul ... and life goes on.

My heart swells with emotion each time I recall the sweetness of my youth!

This is October for me: Withdrawing into my own world, blocking out everything except the beauty of the season, my reflections and my relationship with God, I find that this is enough to sustain me through the long, cold, winter - and beyond...

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Like a dying ember, the child in us can flare up again when we least expect it..

As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny.

Your mission in life is to determine what you believe
not to accept what someone else tells you to believe.

As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina – and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy.

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.

Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.

I long for a place that exists only in my memory –
a cheery spot where my heart is happy and my
spirit is free.

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.

At Christmastime, whenever I feel overwhelmed and a little out of sorts, all I have to do is think of my father and the things he'd be doing if he were here – and I smile.

As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.

Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.

What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?

Writing unlocks the heart and soul that we might be receptive to God's blessings.

Iciness enshrouds my body - a foretaste of death's chill.

When I cease to enjoy what I'm doing, then I shall do something mundane ~ like clean my house.

What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.

Do what makes you happy; don't be afraid to color outside the lines.

Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.

Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year - the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.

Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.