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Monday, April 29, 2013

Quote of the day...

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

--Marcel Proust

Friday, April 26, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

--Euripides

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Quote of the day...

"As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists."

-William Salter

Monday, April 22, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I've been through.  I said, it's because no matter what, I am a survivor.  Not a victim."

--Patricia Buckley

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

--Mark Twain

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Monday, April 15, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."

--Byrd Baggett

Friday, April 12, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life."

--Jessi Lane Adams

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Quote of the day...

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for."

--Joseph Addison

Monday, April 8, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Governments never learn.  Only people learn."

--Milton Friedman, Nobel prize-winning economist

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Quote of the day...

"I hadn't been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway.  It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me."

--Lily Casey Smith, in Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bitten by a mosquito."

--Lily Casey Smith, talking about the responsibility to vote, in Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Quote of the day...

"Hope for the best and plan for the worst."

--Lily Casey Smith's father in Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls


Monday, April 1, 2013

Quote of the day...

"(The) most important thing in life is learning how to fall."

--Lily Casey Smith's father, quoted in Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls