“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

I was thinking recently about how many parents want their children to act, and do things the other children do/did. To me, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Each person (be it child or adult) is an individual, all unique…so why try to make others a carbon copy …

If you look up, there are no limits.
– Japanese Proverb

The future is always beginning now.
~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
~ Leonard I. Sweet

Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~Yiddish Proverb

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
~Arnold Glasow

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~John Wooden, They Call Me Coach

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
~Betty Reese

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
~Author Unknown

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
~~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
~ Dr. Seuss

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
~ Eileen Caddy

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
~Zig Ziglar

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
~Lou Holtz
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
~Wayne Dyer

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank