Additional points to ponder

 

 

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.

- Blaise Pascal

 

 

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb

 

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.  

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
 

- Joan Lunden

 

If you don't like something, change it.  

If you can't change it, change your attitude. 

- Dr. Maya Angelou

 

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. Go ahead take a chance, Love someone today.

 

The wise wo/man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him/her, not the storm without.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. 

- Garth Brooks

 

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. 

- Author Unknown

 

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. 

- Unknown Author

 

The Universe knows not that you exist, nor, does it care.  

Your fate is undetermined and is what you make of it.  

Laugh, love and care, about all that is around you. 

Revel in the wonderment, it's your one and only chance.

~ Jim Davidson

 

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.

~ Buddha

 

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.

-Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

 

Louie: Ignatowski, where have you been all week? 

Reverend Jim: I don't work weekends. 

Louie: You've been gone 9 days! 

Reverend Jim: Yeah. 

Louie: Weekends are only two days. 

Reverend Jim: Oh....I thought we'd switched to the metric system.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

- Dorothee Solle

 

We search so much for the right choices, the right paths to walk, the right time, the right reasons, and the right person.  

But life isn't just about searching for things.  It's also about letting the unexpected happen and finding joy in things and people we never searched for. 

- Anonymous

 

 

Life is change.

Growth is optional.

Choose wisely.

-Unknown

 

If you want to be happy, be.

~ Leo Tolstoy

 

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. 

- Bernard Baruch

 

I don't know.   

I don't know why I did it. 

I don't know why I enjoyed it and I don't know why I'll do it again.

Bart Simpson

 

 

If you don't ask for what you want, the answer is already no. Why not ask, and maybe the answer will be YES?

 

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

-Benjamin Franklin

 

Hope ends when you stop believing.  

Friendship ends when you stop sharing.

Love ends when you stop caring.

And life ends when you stop dreaming.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.   Art is knowing which ones to keep. 

- Scott Adams

 

As a Rose absorbs the nutrients it feeds on and as it thrives to see the sun as it must to survive...... the Rose becomes more beautiful and in turn will provide sunshine to those who can behold it's beauty.  

Fortunate is the Man who can see the Rose within a Woman.  

Blessed is the man who this Woman holds to be her nutrient, her sunshine.

~ Art Denton

 

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.  There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. 

- Fred Rogers

 

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. 

~ Maria Robinson

What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. 

~ Dave Weinbaum