Heard a Great Quote?

[Phrozen Sands]

"Laughter is an instant vacation" -Unknown

I saw it on the cover of a book, and liked it.

[NinjaPoodle]

nice!

[HQWest]

"Do not expect positive changes in your life and then surround yourself with negative people." - unknown

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by HQWest

"Do not expect positive changes in your life and then surround yourself with negative people." - unknown

FTW!

[MIDWESTDIVA]

"We don't need no more rappers. We don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers. We need more of that. We don't need any more entertainers." ~Tupac Shakur

[HQWest]

""Maybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch. Let me say something about that: Yeah, she is. So am I and so is this one. (re: Amy Pohler?)

- - You know what, bitches get stuff done. That's why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests. Those nuns are mean old clams and they sleep on cots and they're allowed to hit you. And at the end of the school year you hated those bitches but you knew the capital of Vermont. So, I'm saying it's not too late Texas and Ohio, bitch is the new black!" ~ Tina Fey

[cheerfulgreek]

The Story of the butterfly

"A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and
snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily but
it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge
and expand enough to support the body,
Neither happened!
In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around.
It was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness
and haste did not understand:
The restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through the opening
was a way of forcing the fluid from the body
into the wings so that it would be ready
for flight once that was achieved.

Sometimes struggles are exactly
what we need in our lives.
Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as we could have been
and we would never fly".

I'm moving into a house in June (Yippie! ), and I was up going through old stuff (keeping some things and throwing some away). I ran across this little story my mom sent me in the mail during my second year in vet school, which was my most difficult year. I thought I was going to die that year. She always sent me things to get me through the tough times. That, along with prayer really helped me make it.

--just thought it would be something nice to share, and I thought this was the perfect thread to post it in.

[NinjaPoodle]

Love it! ^^^

[ASUADPi]

Family is the essence that helps define our very identity.
Family means believing, loving, and supporting each other.

-unknown

[MIDWESTDIVA]

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” – Helen Keller

[cheerfulgreek]

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" ~Astronomer Tom Spilker~

His comment on SETI. I agree with him 100%.

[NinjaPoodle]

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

[NinjaPoodle]

In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

Liz~ Eat Pray Love

[TonyB06]

Until the lions have historians, only the hunters will be heroes.
-Anonymous

[HQWest]

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― A.A. Milne