To all I say Have a happy Thanksgiving and I hope you eat your fill.

Happy birthday to my angel draconic_rogue

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth.  Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow -

"Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answer that cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer ( Read more... )

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne -

"The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to manageable proportions."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower -

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

- Victor Hugo -

"COURAGE... It's just another word for inner strength, presence of mind against odds, determination to hang in there, to venture, persevere, and withstand hardship.  It's got keeping power... It's what makes the amputee reject pity and continue to take life by the throat. It's what forces every married couple having trouble never to say, 'Let's ( Read more... )

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves b the practice and experience of them."

- Socrates -

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all, and to all a great new year.

"First do what is necessary, then do what is possible, and before long you will find yourself doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assissi -

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celibate it. I am thankful for my family and that I am do OK in life.