"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.