“I will love the light, for it shows me the way.
I will endure the darkness, for it shows me the stars.”
-Mandino-


“Be yourself. There is something you can do better than any other. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that.”



“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
-Catherine-


“Things are going to get worse before they get worse.”
-Lily Tomlin-


“When you come to the end of your rope; tie a knot and hang on.”
-F.D. Roosevelt-


“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”
-Vince Lombardi-


“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
-Elbert Hubbard-


“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice that says ‘I’ll come back tomorrow’.”
-Mary Anne Radmacher-


“The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see better than he can think.”


“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect, and I don’t live to be, but before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.”
-Bob Marley-



“I don’t care if you don’t like me. Everyone that matters already approves!”



“You can’t control how others act; only how you react to them.”
-Dr. Phil-



“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt-



“When we long for life without pain and difficulties, we must remember that oaks grow in contrary winds and diamonds are made under extreme pressure.”
-Peter Marshall-



“I do not understand the mystery of grace-only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.”
-Anne Lamett-



“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
-Dr. Seuss-




“I have always wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
-Gilda Radner-



“What you are if God’s gift to you; what you become is your gift to God.”



“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when, you only decide how you’re going to live now.”
-Joan Baez-



“It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.”
-Brigitte Bardot-



“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
-Ingrid Bergman-



“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”
-Rita Mae Brown-



"I have a dream......."
-Martin Luther King-



“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”
-Billie Burke”



“A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.”
-Lillian Day-



“If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”
-Linda Ellerbee-



“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
-Mary Wilson Little-



“Mistakes are the dues one pays for a full life.”
-Sophia Loren-



“There’s one thing said for inviting trouble; it generally accepts.”
-May Maloo-



“I am treating you as my friend in asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.”
-Katherine Mansfield-



“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.”
-Golda Meir-



“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
-Margaret Mitchell-



“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.”
-Mother Teresa-



“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
-Dolly Parton-



“Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
-Christina Gerogina Rossetti-



“Life is uncertain; eat dessert first.”
-Ernestine Ulmer-



“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
-Abigail Van Buren-



“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
-Harriet Woods-




“The darkest hour only has sixty minutes.”
-Winston Churchill-



“Life is meant to be lived forward, but understood backwards.”



“There are two kinds of people: Those who work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group. There is less competition.”
-Gandhi-



“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
-Samuel Beckett-



“He who angers you, wins!”



“There may be scars on my chest, but there need not be scars on my spirit.”
-Judy Kneece-



“If you’re going through hell; keep going.”
-Winston Churchill-




“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”



“When one door closes, another opens- even if it’s hell in the hallway.”




“We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
-Joseph Campbell-



“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
-Einstein-



“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are; you aren’t.”
-Margaret Thatcher-




“DANCE as though no one is watching.
LOVE as though you’ve never been hurt before.
Sing as though no one can hear you.
Live as though heaven were on earth.”
-Souza-



“You can’t steal second with you foot still on first.”



“The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”
-Henry Ward Beecher-



“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt-



“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
“A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will never return.”
-Chinese Proverb-



“Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
-Philo-



“This too shall pass.”
-Winston Churchill-



“Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”



“And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
-Chuck Noland- Castaway



I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I’ll do better.
-Maya Angelon-



“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Emerson-



“No one has an expiration date written on their forehead.”



“Courage is not freedom from fear; it is being afraid and going on.”



“When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown; faith is your knowing one of two things: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly”
-Barbara Winter”



“Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away.”


“I graduated from the University of Hard Knocks.”