“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

~ Muhammad Ali

There is a way in which a fish swimming around in a fishbowl knows nothing at all about water. Because water is so much a part of the fish's life. If you want the fish to really understand water, you have to take the fish out of the fishbowl and say, "Look, that's water."

~ Unknown

"Love is the only reality."

(family motto heard on "The Bachelorette" on ABC - 7/12/10)

Laugh a lot, 
And when you’re older,
All your wrinkles
Will be in the right place.

(seen on someone's Facebook photo)

‎'Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.'

~ Joshua Marine

"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies." 

~ Thomas Jefferson

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”

~ Harold Kushner

"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

~ St. Augustine

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." 

~ Amelia Earhart

"What if your greatest dream happened? Would it make the world a better place?" 

 ~ Erwin McManus

"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting" 

~ unknown

"A possibility was born the day you were born, and it will live as long as you live." 

~ Marcus Solero

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

~ Douglas Adams

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

~ C.S. Lewis

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours." 

~ Joyce Maynard

"Much of what God allows in your life is not for you to simply accept, but to get you to rise up! God wants you to know how to wield the weapons of warfare, how to take a stand, and how to fight."

~Stasi Eldridge in Captivating

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

“When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.” — Tyler Perry

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - John Bowring

“Human life would seem to consist in that in which each man most delights, that for which he especially strives, and that which he particularly wishes to share with his friends.”

~ Thomas Aquinas