Inspirational...

 

"Death brings pain no one can heal

 Love brings memories no one can steal."

Maya Angelou

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

Women over 40

As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why:

A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, 'What are you thinking?' She doesn't care what you think. If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do, and it's usually more interesting. Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it. Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it's like to be unappreciated. Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one. You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal . For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize.

For all those men who say, 'Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?', here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

- Andy Rooney

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

-- Kahlil Gibran

"If you know absolutely that what you're doing is right, then you are bound to accomplish it in due season."

- Harvey Firestone

You are blessed when you're content with just who you are, no more, no less.

That's the moment you find yourself proud owner of everything that cannot be bought.

"Speak your heart to the people in it."

  ~ Phyllis Zinicola

Some Humans Ain't Human

"Some humans ain't human, some people ain't kind.
You open up their hearts and here's what you'll find:
a few frozen pizzas, some ice cubes with hair,
a broken Popsicle, you don't want to go there."

Some Humans Ain't Human by John Prine

Love the Questions Themselves

Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms...Do not seek the answers, they 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, love along some distant day into the answers.  ~ Rilke

Live, Laugh, Love

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson