Open Quote of the Week

[Lucy]

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

 

[Jade]

Crikey means gee whiz,wow!-Steve Irwin alias the Crocodile Hunter (February 22,1962 to September 4,2006)

 

[Invader]

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only though experience of trial and suffering, can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller.

 

[Invader]

“Before someone’s tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today.” ~Michelle C. Ustaszeski

 

[Julie Justice]

(OOC: I read both of these today on a box of Celestial Seasonings Vermont Maple Ginger Tea.)

"The thing you set your mind on, is what you ultimately become."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all."

Ann Radcliffe.

 

[Lucy]

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at.

–Jesse Owens

 

[Lucy]

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

[Invader]

“There is nothing in nature that blooms all year long, so don’t expect yourself to do so either.” ~Unknown

 

[Lucy]

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

- George Herbert

 

[Lucy]

“Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”

― Laura Davis

 

[Lucy]

 

[Lucy]

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Soren Kierkegaard