We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. --- Dale Carnegie------------------------------------------The future depends on what we do in the present. --- Mahatma Gandhi------------------------------------------------------------------- If you don't like something,change it. If you can't change it,change your attitude. Don't complain. --- Maya Angelou

All very true Matie!

"Faith is taking the first step when you can't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King

Really do like that one,Frances! Very pretty imagery there.

I like that one too. Very vivid and I'd never heard it before.

Beautiful one, Frances.

Another one that I like is "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Chinese proverb

"Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking." - Antonio Machado

Really like that one, Frances. Not one I've heard before and very appropriate for me right now.

Agreed! :cool:

"A foul mouth is a sign of a feeble mind trying to express itself forcefully." - Anonymous

The one we used to have in our class in school: "Oh, Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut, until I know what I'm talking about." Frances, I'm going to write yours down. Brilliant!!!!

"Lord, spare me the self-righteousness of those who save principles and kill people." - Father Tonino Bello

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ---Alice Walker--- ///////////////////// "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." ---Harry S. Truman--- ///////////////////// "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ---Archbishop Desmond Tutu--- /////////////////// "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." ---William Arthur Ward--- ////////////////////////// "Hold fast to dreams / /for if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly." ---Langston Hughes--- //////////////////////// "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." ---Dr. Seuss--- ////////////////////////// "Never regret anything you have done with sincere affection;nothing is lost that is born of the heart." ---Basil Rathbone--- /////////////////////////// "There is no remedy for love but to love more." ---Henry David Thoreau---

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. (Henry Ward Beecher) Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. (Alan Alda) All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. (Orison Swett Marden) A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)