Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R. Tolkien

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. ~Marya Mannes

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

Be what you would seem to be- or, if you'd like it put more simply-never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

James Joyce -I think! ;)

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real"

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln

(or maybe it's Rev. William John Henry Boetcker)

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. -Heraclitus

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.

The Talmud

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

“I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries”

Theodore Isaac Rubin

It's on to Junior High for MKR!

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

Confucius

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain