"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?" ~Erma Bombeck

"You can't reach for the sky if you're under the ceiling."
"But the ceiling keeps you out of the rain."

~Scott Bakula and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Quantum Leap

"Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement." 

~ St. Seraphim of Sarov

"Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way."  

~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

~ Moliere

‎"You see only with your eyes, so you are easy to fool." 

~ Jackie Chan in Karate Kid

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

~ Isaac Asimov

"The biggest problem with hell is not just the hypocrisy of the church, but the notion that God is both all glorious and yet an incredible failure at having won the world over. If the vast majority will die and go to hell, then does this not bring into question the foresight of God, the effectiveness of His effort to communicate redemptive love and the flawed design He used for human beings?  Adam in his falling was more powerful than Christ in His rising." 

~ Bob Greaves

         "Life isn't found in the destination you're headed to. It's found all around you in the journey you're on to get there. If you spend all your moments watching your feet, being careful not to step in the mud, not to trip over a root, not to stub your toe on a rock... if all you do is make sure you're walking right, then you are completely missing the scenery all around you that is called LIFE!
         "You can arrive at your destination filled with pride that you got there in pristine condition, or you can arrive a little muddy and bruised but filled with the life you experienced along the way!" 

~ Robert Cook

When you find a redemptive explanation for your suffering, you move from victim to wounded healer.

~ Donald Miller

‎"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible." 

~ Thomas Kempis

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

~ Unknown

“Perfectionism is not a pursuit for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.” 

~ Julia Cameron

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

~ C. S. Lewis

‎"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." --Albert Einstein

“The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” --Wendell Berry

‎"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love." --Washington Irving

“Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.” - Blue Fairy from Pinocchio

"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."

~ Anonymous

‎"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." 

~ Mary Manim Morrissey

When you allow fear to overtake your life the main person you are letting down is yourself. Take a close look at your life and ask yourself - what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? Now go do that.