Dream, see, believe….

It’s not what you are that holds you back, It’s what you think you’re not. ~ Denis Waitley

Pain

the pain of the death of a loved one, the pain of the end of a relationship, and the pain of a child losing a teddy bear are no different. Pain is pain.

What makes you happy?

“No man chooses evil because it’s evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

Come unto yourself

I’ve learned that the hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself—to know, understand, and love yourself for everything you are. ~TinyBuddah

Happy Birthday America

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great… We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favor towards us, that His Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
—Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775)

Life is Short….

“Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.” – Mark Twain

Defend your rights

"If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner."  - Terry Goodkind

Learning is Independent

‘The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.’ ~Albert Einstein

Value

“What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.” ~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Spiritual Perception

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein

Our Nation?

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One is by the sword. The other is by debt."  - John Adams, 1826

Hope you had a great President’s Day!

• Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Woodrow Wilson
• We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. -Ronald Reagan
• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. -Dwight Eisenhower
• There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan
• There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America. -Bill Clinton
• Pessimism never won any battle. -Dwight Eisenhower
• Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth. -George Washington
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -George Washington
• My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. -Herbert Hoover
• How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? -Harry Truman
• Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. -Ronald Reagan
• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. -Abraham Lincoln
• Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. -Abraham Lincoln
• You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. -Woodrow Wilson
• Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. -Thomas Jefferson
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight Eisenhower

Live Life

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Life

"There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and experimentation. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately works." by John Mcgraw

"Worrying is like praying for what you don't want."

Goals or a Lifestyle?

Be happy, Be nice, Be a leader, Be organized, Be a lifelong learner, and Be healthy.

And he suffereth it.

“The world is full of suffering. It is also filled with overcoming it.” -Helen Keller

Read

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain

Why Worry?

Why Worry?

There are only two things to worry about;

Either you are sick or you are well;

If you are well, there is nothing to worry about;

If you are sick, there are only two things to worry about;

Either you live, or you die;

If you live, there is nothing to worry about;

If you die, there are only two things to worry about;

Either you go to heaven or hell;

If you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about;

If you go to hell…

You’ll be so busy shaking hands with friends,

You won’t have time to worry;

So why worry?

Fear is an ugly word.

“What other people think of me is none of my business.” ~Wayne Dyer

Preparedness

Today we are not preparing for a future time of peril, we are living in perilous times.  ~M.D. Creekmore

Great Things

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

How to truly change your life.

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”