“Don’t stay in the dark and count your woes. Step into the light and count your blessings.” — Sandra Kring

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely. — Pam Brown

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

When you begin to value yourself, others will also. How you treat yourself  teaches others how to treat you. — Unknown

I define intelligence not by the number of arguments a person has won, but the number of times one has said, “This nonsense is not worth my time. — Dodinsky

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ” — Helen Keller

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? NOT MUCH.  — Jim Rohn

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just …

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”  — Carl Jung

Sometimes walking away has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own. — Unknown

The best revenge is happiness, because nothing drives people more crazy than seeing someone actually living a good life. — Unknown