Time

Time flies: but remember

 you are the navigator.

Fly Away

When wings are grown,

birds and children fly away.

~ Chinese Proverb ~

Good Laughs

We are all here for a spell;

get all the good laughs you can.

~ Will Rogers ~

Music

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people.

It's transporting, for sure.

It can take you right back, years back,

to the very moment certain things happened in your life.

It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

~ Aretha Franklin ~

R.I.P.

See the Good Points

It is healthier to see the good points of others

than to analyze our own bad ones.

~ Francoise Sagan ~

No More Blame

You can no more blame your circumstance for your character

than you can the mirror for your looks.

Act

Act the way you'd like to be

 and soon you'll be the way you act.

~ Dr. George W. Crane ~

Compliments

Compliments cost nothing, yet there

are those around us who would do

anything to be praised for something.

Compassion

If you want others to be happy,

practice compassion.  If you want

to be happy, practice compassion.

~ Dalai Lama ~

It's Sad

It's sad when someone you know

becomes someone you knew.

~ Henry Rollins ~

Dear Old Friends

Remember that the most valuable antiques

are dear old friends.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~

Getting Older

The good part about getting older is 

you stop trying to prove anything to anyone,

including yourself.  All you are in the pursuit of 

is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles

that you store in your heart, and every once in a while

you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

~ Twinkle Khanna ~

Two Great Days

There are two great days in a person's life -

the day we are born and the day we discover why.

~ William Barclay ~

Worrying

When you begin to worry, go find something to do.

Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful.

Talking about your problem or sitting alone,

thinking about it, does no good;

 it serves only to make you miserable.

Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless.

Worrying will not solve your problem.

~ Joyce Meyer ~

Remember Your Dreams

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

You must know what you want from life.

There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:

the fear of failure.

~ Paulo Coelho ~

Negative People

Stay away from negative people.

They have a problem for every solution.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Your Smile

Your smile will give you a positive countenance

that will make people feel comfortable around you.

~ Les Brown ~

Love Your Life

However mean your life is, do not blame it;

 do not shun and call it hard names.  

It is not so bad as you are.  

It looks poorest when you are richest.

The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise.

Love your life.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Respect

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents

will not have true respect for anyone.

~ Billy Graham ~

Dreams

Dreams are renewable.

No matter what our age or condition,

there are still untapped possibilities within us

and new beauty waiting to be born.

~Dr. Dale Turner ~

Office Plants

Never go to a doctor

whose office plants have died.

~ Erma Bombeck ~

Rain

If the rain spoils our picnic,

but saves a farmer's crop,

who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

~ Tom Barrett ~

Happiness

Let us never know what old age is.

Let us know the happiness time brings,

not count the years.

~ Ausonius ~

Be That Perfectly

Do not wish to be anything but what you are,

and try to be that perfectly.

~ St. Francis de Sales ~

Music

Music expresses that which cannot be said

and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~ Victor Hugo ~