Live Life Fully

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. - Anthony Robbins

Sunshine

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie

Adversity

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. ~Author Unknown

Discipline

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ~ Jim Rohn~

Friends

Friends are family you choose for yourself.  ~Author Unknown

Memorial Day Tribute

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”  ~Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”  ~Mark Twain

Enjoy the Scenery

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
 ~Author Unknown

Different Paths

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."

--  Tim McGraw

Spark

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

Worry

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!
Author Unknown

Dare Mighty Things

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Success

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Limits

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Dr. Denis Waitley

Ready Soul

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Don't Put Off Living

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.  We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.  ~Dale Carnegie

Live for Today

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future.  When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.  ~Author Unknown

Sunshine

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie

Power of a Kind Word

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.  ~Leo Buscaglia

God's Masterpiece is Mother

God took the fragrance
Of a flower
The majesty of a tree
The gentleness of morning dew
The calm of a quiet sea
The beauty of the twilight hour
The soul of a starry night
The laughter of a rippling brook
The grace of a bird in flight
Then God fashioned from these things
A creation like no other,
And when his masterpiece was through
He called it simply - Mother.
Herbert Farnham
God's Masterpiece is Mother.

Mother

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world."
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Family

   “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”

Mother's Love

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  ~Sophia Loren

Let Your Light Shine

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.  ~James Poland

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost (1874–1963) 

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.