Author: Laurence

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller
I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace – those would be more realistic goals.

Brad Pitt
Like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by a submarine.

Clarke Smith, age 9, describing the first year of the pandemic.
Lord, give me patience, and give it to me right now!

Candy Shinaar
In life, it’s important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.

Unknown
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.

John Wooden
Fear of failure causes us to fail. The willinginess to fail enables us to succeed.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better, it’s a conviction that we can make things better.

Melinda Gates
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Meister Eckhart
It is not our job to toughen our children to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

L. R. Knost