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.

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.

We may not always realize
That every thing we do,
Affects not only our lives
But touches others, too!

If tomorrow starts without me and I’m not there to see,
If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn’t cry the way you did today, while thinking of the many things, we didn’t get to say.

A loving angel came to me in dreams,
And showed me life’s not always what it seems,
And brought me to a place where sweet dreams live,
And gave to me a gift that I now give:

Take a couple of whole months, clean them thoroughly of all Bitterness, Rumors, Hate and Jealousy; in other words, make them as fresh and as clean as possible.

Try to be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear ideas different from your own. It is hard to learn something new when you are talking, and some people DO know more than you do.

“Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein