Powerful Words

“You may not be able to change the world, but you can choose to be a world of change for one person.”  (Each day, find that person and change their world.)

~Dr. Katherine M. Howard

One thing that I had a hard time learning is that you should never turn away an outstretched hand.  The hands aren’t always reaching to take, they are often stretching to give.

~Dr. Katherine M. Howard

 

When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are the lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.                                 — Phyllis Bottome

In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.  ~Robert Frost

 

Today I do what others won’t so that tomorrow I do things others can’t.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional

Some of the greater things in life are unseen, that is why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, and even dream…

Don’t tell me it’s not worth fighting for.  I can’t help it there’s nothing I want more.

Trust is like money.  You need to earn every bit of it, and once you do earn it, I advise you not to blow it but to keep it.  With time, it will grow and grow.  Eventually you will realize that it’s just a number you’ve been keeping track of and that your success was due to the type of person you were, rather than the goal you were trying to accomplish.

You were born an original, don’t die a copy.

 

Be whom you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long at the closed door, that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the path of the strong.

Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward us

You’re the only person who makes forever sound like a journey.

“Hope is oxygen to someone who is suffocating on despair.” -David Carr

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