'You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough." - Joe E. Lewis
"No one can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Marian Robinson
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned , so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell
"Today might be tough for you. You might not want the next moment to show itself, to reveal the twists and turns of life's mystery. But at least you have it. You still have life. A choice as to how you will live this precious day. Don't wish it away. Don't waste it. For the love of all that's holy, redeem thanksgiving rise above the disappointment-opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come." - Sarah Ban Breathnach in Simple Abundance
"Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile." - Deng Ming-Dao in 365 Tao Meditations
"Live. A lot. Unleash yourself upon the world and go! Go now!
And fly free in the frowning face of convention.
Giggle. No, laugh. No, howl as if you've never grown up. Understand this is not a dress rehearsal, this is it!
Take it all in. Yes, every last rose and every single breath." - Mercedes-Benz ad in a Real Simple magazine many years ago."If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember.
you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you." - Winnie the Pooh :o)
"Success. To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people, and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others! To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson (my dad sent this to me shortly after my assault)
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - from the Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
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