• Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
• Anything can happen to me tomorrow, but at least nothing more can happen to me yesterday.
• Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us. (Richard Bach)
• Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves...for they will never cease to be amused.
• Choosing to be humble tastes sweet, being compelled tastes sour.
• Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.
• Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
• The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. (William Saroyan)
• The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes their way.
• If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. (Edith Wharton)
• If tomorrow morning the sky falls...have clouds for breakfast.
• If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. (Mary Engelbreit)
• If you find your socks don't match...stand in a flower bed.
• In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
• It's comforting to know that whatever happens tomorrow will have absolutely no effect on today.
• It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
• Life is not fair. Get used to it.
• Living is like licking honey off a thorn. (Louis Adamic)
• No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
• Remember what was. Anticipate what will be. But live in the moment that lies in between.
• Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. (Emory Austin)
• There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. (G. K. Chesterson)
• There could be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
• Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.' (Viktor Frankl)
• An ugly life is still better than a beautiful funeral.
• Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have
• We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. (Roderick Thorpe)
• What's meant to be will always find a way
• When the outlook is bad, try the uplook.
• You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. (Zig Ziglar)
• You may not have had a wonderful childhood, but at least it's over!

No Problem

Life is easier than you think:
All you have to do is accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable,
bear the intolerable,
and be able to smile at anything.

Insults

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it
If you can't ignore it, top it.
If you cant top it, laugh at it.
If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

from Let It Be

(sung best by Joan Baez, words by Paul McCartney)

When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

An Indian and three cowboys had been in the saddle since early morning. Toward sundown, the cowboys' conversation turned to the big dinner they'd eat when they got to town. Asked if he was hungry, however, the Indian replied simply, "No."
Finally reaching town, each rider ordered steak with all the trimmings. As the Indian wolfed down everything in sight, one of his cowboy friends remarked that only an hour ago he'd said he wasn't hungry.
The brave looked up from his plate. "No use to be hungry back there," he answered disdainfully. "No food."

True Peace

There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.

One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw the picture thought it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell, and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the king looked closely, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had her nest. There in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest.

The king chose the second picture as the winner. "Because," explained the king, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."