Quality takes time

Things of quality have no fear of time. Unknown

I love today's quote. I love the truth of it. I love how when I read it for the first time it resonated in my spirit and settled into my mind as truth.
If it is quality then the time it takes to develop and grow won't be feared or despised. You can apply this truth to anything that has the potential of quality. I think we should consider it especially in relationships. If it is a relationship that has the potential of quality then don't fear the time it takes to grow it, embrace the time. Things rushed are never done very well or with quality. When we allow fear to drive what we say, do, even believe we then create something sub-par. If you see, if you sense, and if you know something has the potential of quality then embrace the time it takes to mature it and develop it. Don't let fear dictate the overall quality of your life.

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Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

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