Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."
Will Durant

Received with thanks from Cindy, Thunder Bay, ON Canada

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Of all the thing's I've lost I miss my MIND the most!"
Ozzy Ozborn

If you don't take a stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Opportunity is often missed because it is usually dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Common sense is not so common.

If you meet someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

Sing like no one is listening. Dance like no one is watching. Love like your heart has never been broken.

"Success is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
Thomas Edison

Good judgement comes from experience,
Experience comes from poor judgement.

For all your days prepare, and meet them all alike:
When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

'Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great, but what you consider to be right.'
John Henry Gray

All glory comes from daring to begin.

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

Confessions are good for your soul but not for your reputation.

Chinese Proverb:
        To have happiness...
            for an hour, take a nap~
               for a day, go fishing~
                  for a month, get married~
                     for a year, inherit a fortune~
       But for a lifetime, help someone.....

A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it can last a lifetime.

Live each day as if there is no tommorrw, learn each day as if there is forever!

It is not the gail, but the set of the sail that determines the way we go.

Science has found that nothing disappears without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation.
Wernher von Braun

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.
Albert Einstein

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips!

It is better to build children than to repair men.

"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."
Henry Ford

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each one's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Received with thanks from Debbie in Grand Forks, ND

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K Chesterton, The Defendant

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Old Proverb

Shallow men believe in luck; wise men in cause and effect.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us."
Bill Waterson, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes"

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth."
English Proverb

Received with thanks from Patty M., Verona

Yesterday is History, tomorrow is a Mystery, today is a Gift,
That is why they call it the Present.

Do what you like, but like what you do.
Advice from Winston Spencer Churchill to his daughter Diana when she decided to go into the theatre.

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but to quickly see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht

It's hard to be walked on when you're standing up.

Smile - Its the only curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Absense is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, it inflames the great!

Triumph is just umph added to try.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity!