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

"We grow great by dreams." Woodrow Wilson

"Some people strengthen others just by being the kind of people they are." ---John M. Gardener

"Blessed are they that have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." Thomas Hughes

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

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."  Erma Bombeck

"Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine."  Unknown Author

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people.  He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves that dwell inside each and everyone of us.  One is Evil.  It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.  The other is Good.  It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”  The grandson thought about it for a minute, and then asked his grandfather:
“Which wolf will win ?”
The old Cherokee simply replied:
“The one you feed.”

I can't find an origin for this, but it can still share a great deal of thought to most any day...I know it does for me!

"Its not how well you can weather the storm, its how well you can dance in the rain."  Author Unknown

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. "  Jim Carrey

"When I woke up this morning I asked myself, "What is life about?"  I found the answer in my room:
The fan said, "Be cool."
The roof said, "Aim high."
The window said, "See the world!"
The clock said, "Every minute is precious."
The mirror said, "Reflect before you act."
The calendar said, "Be up to date."
The door said, "Push hard for your goals."
The floor said, "Kneel down and pray."
Author Unknown

 "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."  Benjamin Disraeli

"It is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in."  John F. Kennedy

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

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetsbles smelled as good as bacon."  Doug Larson

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
Swedish Proverb

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."  Abraham Lincoln

"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. "  Jerry Seinfeld

"Some times things fall apart so that better things can fall together."  Marilyn Monroe

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

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."  Winston Churchill

"Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path." Author Unknown

"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

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it."  David Star Jordan

"When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go.  Only one of two things will happen: either He'll catch you when you fall, or He'll teach you to fly!"  Author Unknown

"I keep all my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them."  Author Unknown

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."  Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966

"Courage isn't always a lion's roar.  It is sometimes the heart at the end of a day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"  Author Unknown

"Only God can make flowers and trees, but He put me in charge of seeds and weeds."  Author Unknown

"When you love the people that you cook for, wonderful can be simple.  And that is the real secret to good food."  Johnny R. Martin

"Remember when you were a kid and your slinky would get all tangled and knotted up and you'd have to sit and patiently untangle the coiled wire toy?  Yeah, life is a lot like that."  Jenette Holyoak Scott

"It has been asserted that the measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.  During the past week, what portion of your thoughts have been devoted to finding good everywhere?"  (LDS New Testament Manual)

"Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."  Dennis Whaitley

"Peace of mind comes from keeping an eternal perspective."  Ardeth Kapp

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."  The Talmud

"This will remain the home of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."  Elmer Davis

"Let not any man publish his own righteousness, for others can see that for him; sooner let him confess his sins, and then he will be forgiven, and he will bring forth more fruit."  Joseph Smith Jr.

"The happiest people I know wake up with a smile on their face and go look for someone to share it with.  The most miserable people I know wake up angry and/or depressed and go look for someone to blame."  Bridget Gratton

"And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity preventeth a multitude of sins."  1 Peter 4:8 JST

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

"Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written."  Ether 2:12

 "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”  Reinhold Niebuhr

 "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. "  Abraham Lincoln

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."  Martin Luther King Jr.

 "Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect.  It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." Author Unknown

"Other things may change us, but we still start and end with family." Anthony Brandt

"The greatest gift I ever had came from God: I call him Dad!"  Author Unknown

"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