The Anthem

Ring the bells that still can ring.

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in.

from Leonard Cohen's "The Anthem"

Those That Serve Us

If you want to know what a person's like,

take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Harry Potter Quote- J.K. Rowling

Fruits of the Spirit

When the Holy Spirit controls our lives

he will produce this kind of fruit in us:

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control...

Galatians 5:22

Changing and growing

The only things that are going to change you from where you are today to where you are going to be five years from now are the people you meet and the books you read.

Lou Holtz

Going deeper

We cannot control the length of our life,

just the depth of it.

For Mom- the daisy lover

I'll give you a daisy a day, dear

I'll give you a daisy a day

I'll love you until

the rivers run still

And the four winds we know blow away

Eddy Arnold song lyrics

Keeping the Trust

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
Sonia Johnson

Struggling and Enduring

Happiness is different than pleasure.

Happiness has something to do with struggling

and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

Riding

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body; but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo! What a ride!"

Secure Future

I don't know what the future may hold,

but I know who holds the future.

Ralph Abernathy

Poetry of Life

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

Sir William Osler

The Working Man

Better to wear out than to rust out.

R. Cumberland

The Pursuit

There are many things in life that will catch your eye,

but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those!

I Owe, I Owe

To whom much is given,

much is expected.

Luke 12:48

No next time, only this time

Next time around--

we'll laugh more,

love more.

We'll see the world.

We won't be so afraid.

Chance and Change

I love to think about chance--

about how one little overheard word,

one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

Anne Tyler

Looking Up

I will lift up my eyes to the hills,

from whence cometh my help.

Psalms 121:1

Producing

The purpose of life is not the absence of suffering,

but that the suffering should bear fruit.

The Dawn

It is always darkest before the dawn.
Old proverb

Remembering

The things we'll remember most,

won't be things at all.

Tragedies

A tragedy in life--a time of great sorrow--is life changing. It is either going to make you or break you. You will never be the same.

A mess of a tragedy

It's not the tragedies that kill us,

it's the messes.

Dorothy Parker

Here

In all things, just be present.

Playing the game

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is?

The opportunity to play.

Mike Singletary

Dashing

There'll be two dates on your tombstone

And all your friends can read 'em

But the only thing that matters

Is that little dash between 'em.

Kevin Welch

Softer Hearts

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Standing Bear

Paddling, Paddling

The secret of success is to be like a duck--

smooth and unruffled on top,

but paddling furiously underneath.
Bill Cosby

Depth

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Pace and Priorities

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Bridges

People are lonely because they build walls

instead of bridges.

Joseph Fort Newton