"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars." ~ Martin Luther

"If you had it to do all over again, would you?" ~ Shaunalynn Schonder

"Every day holds the possibility of a miracle." ~ Elizabeth David

"The happiest business in the world is that of making friends." ~ Anne S. Eaton

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

"The way to know life is to love many things." ~ Van Gogh

Every noble life leaves its fiber interwoven forever in the work of the world.

"Gratitude is heaven itself." ~ William Blake

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is calmness to a life lives in gratitude, a quiet joy." ~ Ralph H. Blum

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Find thankfulness in every aspect of your life, even those things that you may not understand.

The right decision is easy to make. It's living with that decision that is hard.

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." ~ Ralph Marston

"This has been just the bestest day ever!!!" ~ Kira Schonder (with tears in her eyes as she gazed down at the Blue Morpho butterfly that had been sitting on her arm for five minutes)

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These are the moments that Moms live for.

Without change, there would be no butterflies.

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Change might be scary, but it often brings great beauty. Be thankful for change.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." ~ Walt Disney

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." ~ Mother Teresa

"Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone." ~ George Washington

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help a man with the wrong mental attitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill

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Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. (Dory - from Finding Nemo)

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." ~ Benjamin Franklin

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A house is just a building. It's the people within the house that make it a home.

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come." ~ CS Lewis

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Do not waste time waiting for the time to be right. The right time will only come when you choose to begin.

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." --Jim Rohn

"Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen." ~ Sasha Azevedo

"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping." ~ Chinese Proverb

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein

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Imagine my dismay when I realized that my love had not come to this conclusion on his own, but stole it from an acclaimed author and failed to provide the proper credits.