The Eyes Have It

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

- Anna M. Uhlich

Resolution

You may be whatever you resolve to be.
Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something.
"I cannot," never accomplished anything;
"I will try," has wrought wonders.

-J. Hawes

Serenity in the Storm

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.

- Author Unknown

Compassion

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

Charity

Charity should begin at home,
but should not stay there.

- Phillips Brooks

Forgiveness

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love.
In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

- Robert Muller

Kindness of Others

Sometimes our light goes out
but is blown into a flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those
who have rekindled this light.

- Albert Schweitzer

Our Faithful Friend

Dogs have given us their absolute all.

We are the center of their universe.

We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.

They serve us in return for scraps.

It is without a doubt

the best deal man has ever made.

- Roger Caras

Joined for Life

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life -- to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

-George Eliot

War - A Thief

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Family

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- John Bowring

Never Look Back

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it;
it's only good for wallowing in.

- Katherine Mansfield

Create your life

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

- Leo Buscaglia

Choosing our Character

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank

Farewell October

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

- Nova Bair

Be An Angel Today

Encourage someone today.
Be an Angel to somebody today.
Be a Blessing to those who deserve it and those who do not,
because you may never know whose life you are turning around.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

- Author Unknown

How you live

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when.
You can decide how you're going to live now.

- Joan Baez

Disposition vs Circumstances

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.

We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go

- Martha Washington, U.S. First Lady

Attitudes

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

Learning Wisdom

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and
Third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius