"It only takes one person to change your life - you."
-- Ruth Casey
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"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there is never any recourse to the mention of it."
-- Samuel Johnson
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.
~ Marianne E. Neifert. Dr. Mom's Parenting Guide
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Dubois
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein
"The future is purchased by the present."
-Samuel Johnson
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
Martha Washington
"People who make decisions go to the top. Those who fail to make decisions go nowhere."
Bob Proctor
"I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place or person or event, without ego and without judgment."
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen
