"Remember, God has called you to be you, not someone else. Get excited about that today!"  Joel Osteen

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."  Thomas Jefferson

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less."  C.S. Lewis

"I'd rather be hated for who I am then loved for who I am not."  Sarah Almeida

"Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience ~ or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope."  Jane Austen

"The most important thing for anyone to know is that people can love us just the way we are." Fred Rogers

Watermelon Seeds

"Watermelons are amazing. Watermelon seeds are even more amazing. It takes 5-thousand watermelon seeds to weigh a pound and yet, just one of these seeds, warmed by the sun and fed by the rain is capable of making a watermelon weighing up to forty-pounds. It gathers 200,000 times it's own weight, adds several layers of different colors and comes out with a delicious watermelon. Who drew up this little seed plan? Where does it get it's tremendous strength? Until you can explain a watermelon do not set limits on the power of the Almighty.

If God can do all that with a tiny black seed, what can he do with you, his own child? Let him and help him make the best possible you! With his help, you can do anything. You can accomplish any task or reach any goal because of who you are...You are a Child of God!"

--Ideas taken from an essay on watermelons by William Jennings

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."  From a headstone in Ireland

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."  Quentin Crisp

"I never had a policy.  I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."  Abraham Lincoln

 "There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of happiness."  Oprah Winfrey

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."  Margaret Young