"You don't have the power to make life "fair," but you do have the power to make life joyful."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"
   - Mark Twain 

"I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet."
- old Persian Proverb

"The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
  - Winston Churchill

We are told to let our light shine...

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine."
- Dwight L Moody

"Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning"
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
  - George Bernard Shaw

"You don't need a reason to be happy, just a choice."
  - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"God grant me the serenity
 To accept the things I cannot change;
 Courage to change the things I can;
 And wisdom to know the difference."
  - Reinhold Niebuhr 

"We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell."
  - Mary Anne Radmacher

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter F. Drucker

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

"If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind."
- Anonymous

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
  - Benjamin Mays 

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance,
everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
- Dereke Bruce

"It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."
 - William Shakespeare 

"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."
  -  Mark Twain 

"All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney

July 4, 1776 – marks the birth of the United States of America

 - The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."  

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
  - Thomas Jefferson