Quote of the Day

'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change... Courage to change the things that I can.... and wisdom to know the difference.' Reinhold Niebauer

'The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity __even under the most difficult circumstances __to add a deeper meaning to his life.' Viktor Frankl

'Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree not two.' Louis de Benieres  

'Do you think the elderly have a corner on wisdom...that you have to grow old before you understand life''   The book of Job from The Message Bible

"Children are capable of great things, not just in the future but now. Children can be a source of hope and even strength. They can inspire us with their kindness;  they can make us see beauty where we noticed only the mundane. They can make us stop and think;  they can push us to do better." Taya Kyle

'It doesn't matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path to success.' James Clear from the terrific book Atomic Habits   Surely, the path to success and meaning is the steeper one not favored by most. Anyone can walk the well worn road, winners welcome the uphill path.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestley

“Every night the owl with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields— and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when he stops singing, and steps into the air.” Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One Photo by Dave Irey

“No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.” Edgar Guest