I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn’t fail.
The same four walls and busywork were really more like jail.
I longed so much to do the things I’d never done before,
But stayed inside my comfort zone and paced the same old floor.

I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important. My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.

Life’s hard to live and still people make it harder to live. Just living for right takes so much, that I wonder how people have time to do wrong, foolish things, to make life more complicated.

You are strong…
when you take your grief and teach it to smile.
You are brave…
when you overcome your fear and help others to do the same.

Rule One
Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule Two
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. “That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Arab Proverb

“A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.” – English Proverb
“A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.” – Persian Proverb
“A cat has nine lives.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin

All too often people take life, and all of the great things that it offers, for granted. People realize how much something means to them only after it is taken away.

Sometimes, God doesn’t give us the things we want
because He knows the things we truly desire,
desires that we may not even be aware of
because we do not truly know ourselves.