"Don't let your life be a series of random events.  Live it on purpose; live it with passion."

~Anonymous

"God knows what we need, and He is never late."

~Anonymous

"If you live a life of love, you will love the life you live."

~Anonymous

"Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus."

~Jeanine from the book Captivating

"Faith that counts, then, is not the absence of doubt; it's the presence of action."

~Brian McLaren  

"When God gives a friend, He is entrusting us with the care of another's heart."

~Stasi Eldredge

"For beautiful lips, speak words of kindness.  For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.  For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.  For beautiful hair, let a child run their hands through it.  For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone."

~Audrey Hepburn

Post for Monday, April 23rd

"We can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude.  I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include."

~from the movie Chocolat

"Learn as if you will never catch up, and as if you feared losing what you have already attained."

~Confucius  

"Your life's work is where the needs of the world and the joys of your heart intersect."

~Anonymous

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."

~Phyllis Theroux

"Triumph is just umph added to try."

~Anonymous

"We cannot follow the Shepherd if we insist on leading the way."

~Anonymous  

"Some things you aren't ready for until after you do them."

~from the show The Evidence

"Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you."

~Anoymous

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

~Victor Hugo

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

~James Russell Lowell

"A teacher affects eternity; she can never know where her influence stops."

~Henry Brooks Adams

"We have value not because we do, but just because we are."

~Phyllis Burdge

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

~Brian Tracy

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

~Bonnie Friedman

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."

~Jewish proverb

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength."

~Anonymous

"It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving."

~Mother Teresa

"To be happy: don't do whatever you like; like whatever you do."

~Anonymous

"Success consists of getting up once oftener than you fall down."

~Anonymous

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

~Anonymous

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

~Clare Booth Luce

"When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself."

~Anonymous