"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  

"Help a child today and you won't have to repair an adult tomorrow."

~Rock House Kids motto

"The Bible is chock-full of time-release truths."

~Anonymous  

"The stars exist that we might know how high our dreams can soar."

~Anonymous  

"Teacher's talk powerfully shapes who students think they are, who they think they can be, and who they ultimately can become."

~Fairclough  

"Butterflies can't see their wings.  They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can.  People are like that, too."

~Anonymous  

"I may not be where I need to be, but I thank God I'm not where I used to be!"

~Joyce Meyer  

"Don't let Satan put a question mark where God has already put a period."

~Anonymous  

"At the end of the day, the only questions I will ask myself are... Did I love enough?  Did I laugh enough? Did I make a difference?"

~Anonymous  

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

~Winnie the Pooh  

"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.  If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."

~Anonymous  

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

~Albert Einstein  

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own."

~Nikos Kazantzakis 

"Confidence is that feeling I get before I fully realize what I've gotten myself into."

~Seth Lindberg  

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

~John W. Gardner  

Friday, May 24, 2013

"The earth without art is just eh."

~Anonymous  

"Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better."

~Walt Disney  

"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes."

~Maggie Kuhn  

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

~Albus Dumbledore  

"The end of your rope is the beginning of God's doorstep."

~Anonymous  

Sunday, May 19, 2013

"We must always change, renew, and rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are."

~Max DePree

Friday, May 17, 2013

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

~John Wooden  

"Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good."

~Anonymous  

"Feed your faith, and your fears will starve to death."

~Anonymous  

"The love of family is life's greatest blessing."

~Anonymous  

"Be geared toward the times, but anchored on the Rock."

~Dr. Jay Kesler  

"The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation."

~John Green in The Fault in Our Stars  

"In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life."

~John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

"Grief does not change you; it reveals you."

~John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

"When you refuse to hide your scars, they become a lighthouse for someone else."

~Jon Acuff  

"You never soar so high as when you stoop down to help a child or an animal."

~Jewish proverb  

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

~Voltaire  

Monday, May 6, 2013

"You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel."

~Johnny Depp  

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over."

~Anonymous  

"Caring is the very bedrock of all successful education."

~Noddings

Friday, May 3, 2013

"We are more alike in our weaknesses than we are in our strengths."

~Jason Gray

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt on the door at night."

~Anonymous  

"Faith: a conviction that He can and a hope that He will."

~Max Lucado  

"Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything."

~Bob Pierce  

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."

~John Piper  

"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child."

~Dr. Seuss

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

~Martin Luther King Jr.  

"Time is a very precious gift of God, so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment."

~Amelia Barr  

"You will not get what you truly deserve if you're too attached to the things you're supposed to let go of."

~Anonymous  

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

~Scott Hamilton 

"Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for."

~Charles Stanley  

"Don't carry your mistakes around with you.  Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones."

~Anonymous  

"Life is like a camera.  Focus on what's important.  Capture the good times.  Develop from the negatives; and if things don't turn out...take another shot!"

~Anonymous

"If you are depressed, you are living in the past.  If you are anxious, you are living in the future.  If you are at peace, you are living in the present."

~Anonymous  

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

~Anonymous  

"I look for persistence, rather than perfection, in your walk with Me."

~God  

"Everyone comes with baggage.  Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack."

~Anonymous  

"What God sends is better than what we ask for."

~Anonymous  

"You don't have to be afraid of the unknown.  It is unknown only to you.  God is well aware of where you are and of every step He is asking you to take.""

~Mary Southerland  

Sunday, April 14, 2013

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

~Angela Schwindt  

"Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have."

~Anonymous  

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about discovering who God created you to be."

~Anonymous  

"Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change."

~Anonymous  

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

"What you learn today will change their tomorrow."

~American College of Education motto

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"The Bible is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions."

~Anonymous  

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

~Anonymous

"The life you live is the lesson you teach."

~Anonymous

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.  What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things long after you have forgotten everything."

~Maggie Fortson  

"God probably won't do things your way, the easy way, or the way that makes the most sense to you; but He promises to prove, in His time, that He does all things the right way."

~Thomas Gold  

"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking."

~George MacDonald  

"God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day."

~Lou Giglio

"Education is the miracle, I'm just the worker.  We're teachers, and that's what we do."

~Taylor Mali

Sunday, March 31, 2013

"The best part of teaching is that it matters.  The hardest part of teaching is that every moment matters every day."

~Anonymous  

"When you find your path, you must not be afraid.  You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.  Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."

~Paulo Coelho   

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."

~Helen Keller  

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."

~Dr. Seuss  

"I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse."

~Philip Yancey

"I myself am entirely made of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."

~Augusten Burroughs

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom."

~Anonymous  

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

~Guillaume Apollinaire  

"I need to let God be the one who defines me."

~Lauren Barlow  

Thursday, March 21, 2013

"Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy, too."

~Anonymous  

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

"The trick is to enjoy life.  Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead."

~Anonymous  

"Here and now is all that exists."

~Anonymous

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

~Anonymous  

"Some people look for a beautiful place.  Others make a place beautiful."

~Hazrat Inayat Khan  

"Our lives are storybooks that we write for ourselves; wonderfully illustrated by the people we meet."

~Anonymous  

Friday, March 15, 2013

"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held his ground."

~Anonymous  

"Worry is like a rocking chair.  It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere."

~Anonymous

"Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful."

~Annette Funicello

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Teachers who love teaching teach children who love learning."

~Anonymous

"The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent."

~Alfred Brendel   

"It's the simple, cliche, basic stuff of Christianity that we have the most difficult time following."

~Starbucks barista  

"We can do no great things.  Only small things with great love."

~Anonymous  

"I don't want to just read books; I want to climb inside them and live there."

~Anonymous  

"It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see."

~Anonymous

"If you stand for nothing, you will fall for something."

~Anonymous  

"Just because something isn't happening for you right now doesn't mean that it will never happen."

~Anonymous  

"When we put our problems in God's hands, He puts His peace in our hearts."

~Isaiah 26:3

"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever."

~Peeta Mellark in Catching Fire

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you."

~Peeta Mellark in Catching Fire

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

~Anonymous  

"The secret to having it all is knowing you already do."

~Anonymous

"The grass is not greener on the other side; it's greener where you water it."

~Neil Barringham  

"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than one you are capable of living."

~Nelson Mandela  

"When you seek beauty in all people and all things, you will not only find it, you will become it."

~Anonymous  

"Being single doesn't mean no one wants you.  It means God is busy writing your love story."

~Anonymous  

"To be Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

~C.S. Lewis  

Thursday, February 21, 2013

"I often wonder if more girls were willing to be ladies, more guys would feel challenged to be gentlemen."

~Anonymous  

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

~Lady Bird Johnson

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

~C.S. Lewis  

"Faith is the key to unlocking what we hope for."

~Melissa Wall

"What's meant to be will always find its way."

~Anonymous  

"Today is a new day!  You can start fresh, wipe the slate clean, and begin again.  Today you can embrace kindness, practice compassion, stand up for justice, talk to strangers, ask for help, offer hope, listen with your whole heart, work for the common good, and love well.  You can be the change you wish to see in the world."

~Anonymous  

"Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile."

~Anonymous  

"Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken.  Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better."

~Anonymous

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches on the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all."

~Emily Dickinson  

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

~Paul Sweeney

"The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in.  The ones that swept you off your feet and challenged every view you've ever had."

~Anonymous  

"He's not perfect.  You aren't either; and the two of you will never be perfect.  But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.  He isn't going to quote poetry, he's not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break.  Don't hurt him, don't change him, and don't expect more than he can give.  Don't analyze.  Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he's not there.  Love hard when there is love to be had.  Because perfect guys don't exist, but there's always one guy that is perfect for you."

~Bob Marley

"Wherever you are, be all there."

~Jim Elliot

"If you change nothing, nothing will change."

~Anonymous  

"Always be kinder than you feel."

~Anonymous

"Never get tired of doing little things for others.  Sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts."

~Anonymous  

"God has a reason for allowing things to happen.  We may not understand His wisdom, but we simply have to trust His will."

~Anonymous  

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."

~Rose Franken

"Use what talents you possess.  The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

~Henry Van Dyke

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

~Anonymous  

"Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow'."

~Thomas S. Monson

"To be kind is more important than to be right.  Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a special heart that listens."

~Anonymous  

"You are somebody's reason to smile."

~Anonymous

The 5 W's of Life

1.  Who you are is what makes you special.  Don't change for anyone.

2.  What lies ahead will always be a mystery.  Don't be afraid to explore.

3.  When life pushes you over, you push back harder.

4.  Where there are choices to make, make the one you won't regret.

5.  Why things happen will never be certain.  Take it in stride and move forward.

~Anonymous

"Grace makes beauty out of ugly things."

~U2

"Good friends are like stars.  You don't always see them, but you know they are always there."

~Anonymous

"Have you prayed about it as much as you have talked about it?"

~Anonymous  

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

~Marilyn Monroe

Thursday, January 24, 2013

"Follow your heart, but take your brain with you."

~Anonymous

"Faith: it doesn't make things easy; it makes them possible."

~Luke 1:37  

"It is an awesome, challenging thought: the Lord comes to us in our friends.  What we do and are to them is an expression of what we are to Him."

~Lloyd John Ogilvie 

"Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken."

~Oscar Wilde

"God had loved me with a little miracle."

~Todd Burpo

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.  

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish motives.  Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.  Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow.  Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.  Give them your best anyway.  

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway."

~Mother Teresa

"Before you talk, listen.  Before you react, think.  Before you spend, earn.  Before you criticize, wait.  Before you pray, forgive.  Before you quit, try."

~Earnest Hemingway

"If God is all you have, you have all you need."

~John 14:8

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

"It's always nice to have someone in your life who can make you smile even when they're not around."

~Anonymous  

"Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite."

~Anonymous

"He held her like a seashell and listened to her heart."

~Anonymous

"Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

~Brian Littrell

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child or a garden patch...to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.  This is to have succeeded."

~Emerson 

"What an honor to be entrusted with a gift that no other person but you can give.  God doesn't say our testimonies must be eloquent, just real and ready."

~Anonymous  

"Promise me you'll always remember you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."

~Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh

"Don't worry if you are single.  God's looking at you right now saying, 'I'm saving this one for someone special.'"

~Anonymous  

"When you are going through something hard and wonder where God is, remember, the teacher is always quiet during a test."

~Anonymous  

"Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it."

~Swedish proverb  

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be.  Don't think that you've lost time.  It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now, and now is right on time."

~Asha Tyson 

"I don't know what my future holds, but I do know Who holds my future."

~Tim Tebow  

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

~ Steve Jobs

Thursday, January 3, 2013

"The phrase do not be afraid is written in the Bible 365 times. That's a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless."

~ Anonymous

"Don't cry because it's over.  Smile because it happened."

~Dr. Seuss

"When you are down to nothing, God is up to something."

~Anonymous