“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a person can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."
- Epictetus

Many times we don't see things as they are, rather we see things as we are."
Anais Nin

I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy."
- Anne Frank

It is therefore recommended … to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor ..
- Samuel Adams , Father of the American Revolution, November 1, 1777

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.  ~Edward Sandford Martin
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.  ~W.T. Purkiser
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet.  Believe in man.  Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place.  There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.  ~Phillips Brooks

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, Republican

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
- David Seabury

"All progress is change, but not all change is progress............"
Annette Sheel
Note: Sent by Peg Sall her favorite high school history teacher's favorite line

"Progress is impossible without change, and those people that cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran

"The world breaks every one, and afterward many are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

"A good general can defeat his enemy 100 times in 100 battles, a great general can defeat his enemy before the battle begins." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Take full account of what excellencies  you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
- Marcus Aurelius

We are fallible. We certainly haven't attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
- Carlos P. Romulo

"Things are only impossible until they're not."
~ Jean-Luc Picard

Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well
Bonnie Wilcox 'Old Dogs, Old Friends'
Note: From Donna Dickinson Schneider

The doer alone learneth."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Note: Sourced by Beth Bosserman

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
William Mather Lewis

"When you're through changing,
you're through
Bruce Barton

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable."
John Lennon

"Friendship consists in forgetting what what gets and remembering what one receives." Alexander Dumas

So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
- -- Thomas Wolfe