"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have." -Ring Lardner

"May today be especially beautiful for you!"

May Tomorrow Be The Best Day In Your Life!

Live Love Laugh

"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."

Kathleen Norris
(1880-1966)
Novelist

"go to the ants thou sluggard learn her ways and be wise"

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Set yourself free from the past, bring peace into your life, and move into the present by letting go of your anger and bitterness.

Lucy MacDonald

It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you are not.

None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley

Conscience is an open wound, only the truth can heal it, Usman Dan fodio

There are no hopeless situations, there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

"What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are."

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
American novelist

The wisdom of the wise is in his head,

'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' ~Michelangelo

quite profound

Our life is a product of our thoughts

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are
willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try
something new."

-- Brian Tracy

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

-- Harriet Tubman, Abolitionist

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

"Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."

-- Benjamin Spock, Pediatrician

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Jim Dine

"Whosoever trusteth in the Lord,
happy is he."

"The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But victory belongs to the LORD"

"A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm."

-- Charles M. Schwab

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Humanitarian and
U.N. diplomat

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.”

"The wisest men follow their own direction".

Euripides

It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence."

Malcolm X

““If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.””

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself."

-- Garth Brooks, singer