Opportunities

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

asking and receiving

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you." - Jim Rohn

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is giving up on hope that the past did not happen" - Oprah

I am the decisive element

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate; my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de escalated, and whether a person is humanized or de-humanized." - Goethe 

Give

‎"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

Happiest

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have." - Anonymous 

Truth and Beauty

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

New beginning

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson 

Defeat

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon 

Hope

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them." - Louisa May Alcott 

Happiest

"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."- Denis Diderot 

Courage

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? "- Vincent Van Gogh 

Truth

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time." - Mohandas Gandhi 

Thoughts

"You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl

Load

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne 

I believe in singing

"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed." - Mary Oliver 

Gratitude

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." - William Arthur Ward

Self

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." - Louis L'Amour