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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

Tell the truth and then run.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen

• USED*Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

-- Betty Smith

Whoever I am and whatever I am doing, some kind Excellence is within my reach. -- John W. Gardiner

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. -- Mary Tyler Moore

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -- Pablo Picasso

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. -- John Heider

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” - Maria Robinson quotes

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”Keri Russell quotes

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” Arnold Bennett quotes

"If you want to be happy, be." - Henry David Thorreau

(used)"There was a star that danced, and under it I was born." - Unknown

"Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years." - Unknown

USED"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Althsuler

"All change is created in a moment - with a simple choice." - R.T. Gorham

"The best things in life, aren't things." - Art Buchwald

(Used)* I know you're here for a million reasons, some still to come. (Sarah Bettens)

• Scream without raising your voice (U2)
• We talk about forever but we've only got today... (Keith Urban)
• Summer days driftin' away, to uh-oh those summer nights
• And today you know that's good enough for me

Breathing in and out's a blessing can't you see Today's the first day of the rest of my life Now I'm alive and well Yeah I'm alive and well (Kenney Chesney)

• If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
• a heart don't forget somethin' like that
• All I need is a little more of you (Ashley Chambliss)
• life's like an hourglass glued to the table (Anna Nalick)
• So let the winds of change blow over my head/I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead (JB)
• We are the people our parents warned us about (JB)
• Choose to chance the rapids/And dare to dance the tide (Garth)
• For a moment all the world was right (Garth)
• Yes my life is better left to chance/I could have missed the pain but I'd of had to miss the dance (Garth)
• I'm not big on social graces/Think I'll slip on down to the oasis/Oh I've got friends in low places (Garth)
• You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.-
• It's like picking up trash in dresses (Jason Mraz - Beautiful Mess)
• I like being submerged in your contradictions (Jason Mraz)
• She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway (Mathcbox 20)
• love turns the whole thing around (John mayer)
• but i know the heart of life is good (John Mayer)
• Slip inside the eye of your mind/Don't you know you might find (Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger)
• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." (Washington Irving)
• "What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be."(Helen Claes)
• "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."(Dr. Seuss)
• Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (John Mayer)
• "I want a sunburn just to know that I'm alive" (Thriving Ivory)
• "We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." (H.L. Mencken)
• "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." (Jack London)
• "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." (Don Marquis)
• "I was born to tell you I love you" (Secondhand Serenade. Your Call.)
• "Everyday's the first of the rest of your life" (Angels on the Moon by Thriving Ivory)

DR. SEUSS

• And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

-- Dr. Seuss

• And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.

-- Dr. Seuss

• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

-- Dr. Seuss

• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

-- Dr. Seuss

• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

-- Dr. Seuss

• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!

-- Dr. Seuss

• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

-- Dr. Seuss

• You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

-- Dr. Seuss

• You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

-- Dr. Seuss

• Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!

-- Dr. Seuss

"How did it get so late so soon?" (Dr. Seuss)

• "You're off to Great Places!

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!" (Dr. Seuss)

USED* "If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too." (Dr. Seuss)

-Used-* "If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good." (Dr. Seuss)-used-

• "Only you can control your future." (Dr. Seuss)
• "If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!

An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't." (Dr. Seuss)

• "Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you" (Dr. Seuss)
• "Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more...." (Dr. Seuss)
• "Fun can be fun, if you know how." (Dr. Seuss)
• "Remember that life's a great balancing act..." (Dr. Seuss)
• "Think and wonder, wonder and think." (Dr. Seuss)
• "The storm starts, when the drops start dropping

When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping." (Dr. Seuss)

BIRTHDAYS

• And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. (Abraham Lincoln)
• Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. (William Randolph Hearst)
• You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (Bob Hope)
• Youth has no age. (Pablo Picasso)
• For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

WINNIE THE POOH/WALT DISNEY

• If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.

-- Winnie the Pooh

• If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

-- Winnie the Pooh

• Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

-- Winnie the Pooh

• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

-- Winnie the Pooh

• It's fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

• Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

-- Bob Dylan

• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

-- Diane Arbus

• Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

-- Seneca

• Presence is more than just being there.

-- Malcolm Forbes

• "You're gonna miss this

You're gonna want this back You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast These are some good times So take a good look around You may not know it now But you're gonna miss this"

-- Trace Adkins

• "My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,

your dreams stay big, your worries stay small"

-- Rascal Flatts

• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.

-- Lao Tzu

• Find what brings you joy and go there.

-- Jan Phillips

• No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.

-- Jewish Proverb

• You can fall in love at first sight with a place as well as a person.

-- Alec Waugh

CHRISTMAS

• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

-- Norman Vincent Peale

• There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries.

W.J. Cameron

• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

"Ebeneezer Scrooge", in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "It is not the length of life, but the depth."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Life is a journey, not a destination."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "To be great is to be misunderstood. "

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

~USED~* "You are constantly invited to be what you are." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Things do not change; we change.
• On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

Virginia Woolfe

• ~ If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ~

~ Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. ~

Emily Dickinson

• ~ Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. ~

USED* ~ To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• ~ Who so loves believes the impossible. ~

Albert Einstein

• ~ Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. ~

USED* ~ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ~

• ~ Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ~
• ~ It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~

USED~ The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ~

• ~ The value of achievement lies in the achieving. ~

USED* ~ Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one ~

• ~ Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. ~
• ~ Awareness is empowering. ~

Rita Wilson

• ~ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known ~

Dr. Carl Sagan

• ~ You will never win if you never begin. ~

Helen Rowland

• ~ Act as if it were impossible to fail. ~

Dorothea Brande

• ~ A minute's success pays the failure of years. ~

Robert Browning

• "The nearer the dawn the darker the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

Henry Ford

• USED* "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

Frank Clark

• "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

Richard M. Nixon

• "If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

T.S. Eliot

• "Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up."

Chinese Proverbs

• "I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."

Jewish Proverb

Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur." (Many fear their reputation, few their conscience. -Pliny, Letters)

"Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis." (It is best to endure what you cannot change. -Seneca, Moral Epistles)