“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”
~Marcelene Cox

“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”
~Ralph Marston

“There is no normal life that is free of pain.
It’s the very wrestling with our problems
that can be the impetus for our growth.”
~Fred Rogers

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. 
And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. 
Right now. 
~Author Unknown

Trust your own instinct. 
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else’s. 
~Billy Wilder

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
~J.K. Rowling

“Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.”
~James Arthur Ray

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.
If you’re alive, it isn’t.
~Richard Bach

Man is harder than iron,
stronger than stone
and more fragile than a rose. 
~Turkish Proverb

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread;
remade all of the time, made new. 
~Ursula K. Le Guin