Something to remember when you fall on your face...

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience...is a virtue

Patience is the key to paradise.

- Turkish proverb

Animal Crackers

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink. That is the finest of suppers, I think; when I'm grown up and can have what I please I think I shall always insist upon these.

- Christopher Morley, author & journalist

Go For It!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain, American writer

Time

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness...never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

- Lord Chesterfield

Heroes

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

The hero of the future will be that individual with the great mission to overcome the mass feeling of alienation and self-inadequacy. He will recognize that this struggle starts not with his community, nor even with his principal organization, but rather it starts with himself.

Eugene E. Jennings

<3 Heart <3

The road to the head lies through the heart.
-- American Proverb

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

These quotes then led me to seek out the lyrics to the song "Heart" from Damn Yankees!

Pope John Paul II Quote

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable act of God.

—Pope John Paul II

L O V E

Don't lose touch with your capacity to love; in fact, nurture it, for you will find that it is something that can grow. Let yourself need people, and let them need you.
--Elizabeth Drew

Abraham Lincoln Quote

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
-- Abraham Lincoln