Happy...

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms

Stumbling Blocks...

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
~Jack Penn

One Happy Moment...

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm

Sometimes...

Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann

The Path...

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not Lived...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

A perfect summer day..

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

I question not...

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~John Vance Cheney

I Love thee...

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Meditation...

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown

I dreamed..

"I dreamed myself a dream tonight, of silk and honest cloth.

The winds of March...

When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,...
And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek.
~Marjorie Barrows

No matter..

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb

Blooming

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

An expert...

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. ~William Castle

A daughter...

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. ~Author Unknown

Forgotten...

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa

Never miss an Opportunity..

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

In Peace...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

Good...

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

Togetherness in the New Year...

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck