Forward and Backward

I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one-way street, isn't it?

Agatha Christie

answered prayer

I have had prayers answered -  most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. -   Lewis Carroll

Keep Dancing

I get up. I walk. I falldown. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.

It's contagious

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

The World She Wants

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin

Hearing and Listening

Hearing captures the words a person speaks; listening captures the meaning and the feeling beneath those words.

Made for a Purpose

I believe God made me for a purpose.. and when I run I feel His pleasure. Eric Liddell

Making Mistakes

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 
Samuel Smiles

the Cross,the Strength

He sends a cross, but He also sends the strength to bear it. – Leo Tolstoy

Do the exceptional

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. – Robert Cody

Eyesight

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. –Leo Tolstoy

The Best

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

It depends

Happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A Cause that's Bigger

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James

Courage

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert G. Ingersoll