"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