“To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting .”
- E. E. Cummings

“All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific .”
- Jane Wagner

“Do not believe in anything simply because you heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it .”
- Buddha

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another .”
- Luciano de Crescenzo

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover .”
- Mark Twain

“Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think .”
- - Horace ( Latin Poet )

“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals- - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life .”
- Sir William Osler

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for the who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity .”
- Henry Van Dyke

“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise .”
- Phillip Brooks

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love .”
- Henry Drummond

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing .”
- Helen Keller

“Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day .”
- Goethe

“ We are more than what we do…. Much more than we accomplish… Far more than we possess….’ - William Arthur Ward

“ What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever .”
- Henry Van Dyke

“Life is not a “brief candle’. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations .”
- George Bernard Shaw

“ You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
- Shira Tehrani

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…. To put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead .”
- Og Mandino

“ May you live all the days of your life .”
- Jonathan Swift

After awhile you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn’t mean possession
and company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises and you begin to accept
your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight
After awhile you learn that even sunshine
burns if you get too much so plant your
own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you are really strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn…
and you learn…
Veronica A. Shoffstall

“ And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years .”
- Abraham Lincoln

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.

We leave you a tradition of the future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw anyone away.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you’ll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others.

You have great days still ahead of you. May there be many of them.
“Published in Dear Abby”

One SONG can spark a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start each journey
One WORD must start a prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak with wisdom
One HEART can know what is true
One LIFE can make a difference

Author Unknown

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it

You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

The great thing in the world is not where we are, but the direction in which we are moving

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity

Obstacles are those annoying things we encounter when we lose sight of our goals

It is never too later to become what you might have been No good can give us pleasure if we do not share it with others
- Seneca

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
- Alfred Adler

It’s when we forget ourselves that we do things which deserve to be remembered
- Anon

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
- Nicholas Davila

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult
- Seneca

We have the power to shrink our dreams to fit reality or the power to stretch our reality to fit our dreams
- Anon

In the Valleys I Grow

Sometimes life seems hard to bear
Full of sorrow, trouble, and woe
It’s then I have to remember
That it’s in the valleys I grow

If I always stayed on the mountain top
And never experienced pain,
I would never appreciate God’s love
And would be living in vain

I have so much to learn
And my growth is very slow,
Sometimes I need the mountain tops,
But it’s in the valley I grow

I do not always understand
Why things happen as they do,
But I am very sure of one thing.
My lord will see me through

My little valleys are nothing
When I picture Christ on the cross
He went through the valley of death;
His victory was Satan’s loss

Forgive me lord, for complaining
When I’m feeling so very low
Just give me a gentle reminder
That it’s in the valleys I grow

Continue to strengthen me, Lord
And use my life each day
To share your love with others
And help them find their way

Thank you for valleys. Lord
For this one thing I know
The mountain tops are glorious
But it’s in the valleys I grow!