"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, 
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy 

Memorial Day is a time to honor those who are serving and have served in the military. It is also a day to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom in giving their lives. When we celebrate Memorial Day, it doesn't mean we are agreeing with our governments decisions and wars, but that we are taking time to recognize those who are willing to protect us.

"They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation."
- Henry Beecher

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
- Babe Ruth

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter F. Drucker

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?"
- Henry David Thoreau

“The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.” 
- Dwight L. Moody

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." - Mark Twain

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Seize the day!

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
- Raymond Lindquist

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

- Vince Lombardi