"If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape."
~Unknown~

"Life is a garden that blossoms when tended with love, laughter and a believing heart."
~Flavia~

"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."
~Victor Hugo~

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
~St. Francis de Sales~

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
~St. Francis de Sales~

"We are not human beings learning to be spiritual; we are spiritual beings learning to be human."
~Jacquelyn Small~

"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then - for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
~Harriet Beecher Stowe~

"Angels encourage everyone in the direction they really want to go...up."
~Karen Goldman~

"Where there is great love there are always miracles."
~Willa Cather~

"You are living the life you have chosen."
~Anonymous~

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
~Marcel Proust~

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
~Mother Teresa~

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
~Helen Keller~

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry~

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
~Harper Lee~

"Miracles are natural; when they do not occur, something has gone wrong."
~Helen Schulman~

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

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
~Mark Twain~

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
~Albert Einstein~

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~