Favorite Quotes

Everyone wants happiness, no one wants Pain.   But you can’t make a Rainbow, without a little rain.

There is always a little truth behind every 'Just Kidding;' A little knowledge behind every 'I don't know;' A little emotion behind every 'I don't care;' and a little pain behind every 'It's okay.'

Growing up, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down, "happy." They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life

“A persons biggest challenge isn’t someone else.  It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells, I CANT.”  But you don’t listen.  You just push harder.  And then you hear the voice whisper, “I can”.  And then you discover that person you thought you were is really no match for who you really are.”

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right and forget the ones that don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason.  If you get a chance, take it.  If it changes your life, let it.  Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it’d be worth it.

Nothing is impossible, for the word itself says “I’m possible.”

I have so many excuses.  I have so many fears.  I say, “God, I can’t do it.  I’m too weak, I’m too pathetic.  It’s impossible.”  But God looks back at me and says, “But beloved, since when did it become all about you?  It’s about me.  It’s my promise.  I will guide you.  I’ll never leave you.”

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. 

Maya Angelou

The future belongs to those who believe in the future of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Gregory David Roberts

Words describe my thoughts and what's hidden in my heart.

Gary Paulsen

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be better.

 Alfred Lord Tennyson

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion… that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

 Libba Bray

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You’re here to learn that there are no random acts.  That we are all connected.  That you can no more separate one life from another then you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

We are all born into this world as a blank slate, and everyone we meet takes a paintbrush and makes a stroke upon our canvas, and in this manner we grow. But the time comes when we must take up the paintbrush ourselves, for only we can determine if we are to be just another painting or a masterpiece.

Be yourself, despite all your flaws and all your differences. Who cares what people think. They either love you or they don’t. And that is their choice.

A single candle remains lit to remind us that even when all seems completely hopeless, when there is no reason to believe that things can and will get better, when God seems most distant, God is working to do great and marvelous things which we don't expect.

I believe in the Sun even when its not shining, and I believe in Love even when i can't feel it, and I believe in God even when he is silent.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Without humor, life sucks.  Without courage, life is hard.  Without love, life is hopeless.  Without friends, life is impossible.

A true friend fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.

Courage is what is takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730

Do what you feel in your heart to be right -for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 It’s easy for one small voice to get lost in this world, but if you put all our voices together, it forms a choir. And a choir can be heard all around the world, to the furthest corners or the world, to the deepest cracks in the sidewalk. And its when we form that choir, and reach the deepest cracks, that we can change a nation.

 Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

 A.A. Milne

Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough about us to knock them down.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Life is all about taking chances, about doing something everyone said you couldn’t do. It’s about acting goofy; it’s about not caring what other people think; it’s about loving with your whole heart; and it’s about learning to love what you have

To treat people with respect is to be prepared to listen to what they have to say or to do what they request because they have some authority, expertise or influence.

            -Discrimination comes in Many forms.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead