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Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill. - Thomas Kinkade

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - African Proverb

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. - Marianne Williamson

In all people, there are two sets of feelings: one is fear, the other is love. If there is fear, then we shrink as a person. But love, wow! That can move mountains! - Jorgen Roed

Adversity is the stuff that shows whether you are what you thought you were. -American Proverb

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -Ivy Baker Priest

No matter what situation you are in right now, there is a purpose to that situation. By working with the specific conditions in front of you, you will begin to discover things about yourself that will give you clues to the next step. Your job will be to look, listen, feel, choose, and act. -Carol Adrienne

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
- David Weatherford

Do the thing you believe in. Do the best you can in the place where you are and be kind. - Scott Nearing

Live for something - do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. - Thomas Chalmers

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes, Jr.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James

Every individual makes a difference. We cannot live through a single day without making an impact on the world around us. And we all have free choice - what sort of difference do we want to make? Do we want to make the world around us a better place? Or not? - Jane Goodall, wildlife researcher

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer

I will prepare and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. - Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

When you rule your mind, you rule your world. When you choose your thoughts, you choose results. - Imelda Shanklin, writer

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize on it when it comes along. - H. Bertram Lewis

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Bern Williams

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. - Rossiter Worthington Raymond

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. - Colette

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. - Jan Glidewell

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. - Author Unknown

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. - Walter Anderson