"If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. 
So throw off the bowlines. 
Sail away from the safe harbor. 
Catch the trade winds in your sails. 
Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Security is mostly a superstition. 
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. 
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller

Paul Beaudette @ Think Local 7 Year Anniversary

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs

"Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age."
- Max Lucado

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

- Benjamin Franklin

"May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go." 
- Irish blessing

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

"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

"You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman."
- Max Lucado

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
- Woodrow Wilson

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you are patient in one moment of anger,

you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

- Chinese Proverb

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

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself.

For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness

is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

- Martha Washington