About

"Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints..." I want to be a Twinkie in a Ding Dong world... "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 (1803 - 1882)

Favorite saying

• ""I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." ~Abraham Lincoln "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.They have clung to me all my life ". ~Abraham Lincoln "But what does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your GOD." ~Micah 6:8 "The possession of anything begins in the mind." - Bruce Lee "The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." - Harry Golden Mothers of boys work from son up to son down (ain't it the truth?) "I still have an hourglass figure...it's just time stood still in all the wrong places." -Mae West "We are never defeated unless we give up on GOD." -Ronald Reagan Know GOD, know peace. No GOD, no peace. "Intense love does not measure, it just GIVES." - Mother Theresa "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." -Mother Theresa "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." ~Stephan Grellet "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 (1803 - 1882) "The religion I have is to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest." ~ Daniel Boone ~ "We must always look to the future. Tomorrow - the time that gives a man just one more chance - is one of the many things that I feel are wonderful in life. So's a good horse under you. Or the only campfire for miles around. Or a quiet night and a nice soft hunk of ground to sleep on. A mother meeting her first-born. The sound of a kid calling you dad for the first time. There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne She was made of silk and steel with a smile like sunshine and a spine of iron... What you allow, you encourage. “SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL, BUT NOT LIKE THOSE GIRLS IN THE MAGAZINES. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL FOR THE WAY SHE THOUGHT. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL FOR THE SPARKLE IN HER EYES WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING SHE LOVED. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL FOR HER ABILITY TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE SMILE, EVEN IF SHE WAS SAD. NO, SHE WASN’T BEAUTIFUL FOR SOMETHING AS TEMPORARY AS HER LOOKS. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL, DEEP DOWN TO HER SOUL.” ~ Author Unknown "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "It's about love. It's about compassion. It's about kindness and faith. It's about patience. . . It's about caring and sharing. It's about forgiveness. You get what you give . . . so give good." - Unknown “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero "Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary." ~Philippe Petit"