"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it.   I want to have lived the width of it as well."
– Diane Ackerman

A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it can last a lifetime.

"Sometimes I wish I had a me." 
                                 ~ Bishop TD Jakes

True friendship isn't being inseparable, it's being separated and nothing changes.

"Failure seldom stops you.

What stops you is the fear of failure."

                   – Jack Lemmon

"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."  - Ann Landers

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. " ~Mark Houlahan

Some people are like rainbows in our lives, and others are like storm clouds. I'm learning to embrace the rainbows, and not even listen to the thunder from the storm clouds - Emily Dyer

"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin."
– Ivan Turgenev

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."  – Lady Dorothy Nevill

"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts into our lives, is the perfect preparation for a future only He can see."  - Corrie ten Boom

"How rare and wonderful that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." ~ William Rostler

I had to go where I went, and do what I did, to be who I am now. I am neither boastful, nor ashamed. I’m just me now. Thank you, God.