Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the Promised Land. She prepares a world she will not see.  Pope Paul VI

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. — Tony Robbins

The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it — Wendell Berry

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will […]

Appreciation can make a day – even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. – Margaret Cousins