...after all, tomorrow is another day. -S. O Hara
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.
--Sandra Bullock Hope Floats
No one gets in to see the Great Oz. Not nobody, not no how.
Never let the fear of stiking out keep you from playing the game. -A Cinderella Story
Someday My Prince Will Come. -Snow White
When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. -Pinocchio
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy - if not less of it - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do. -Terry McMillan
Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural
paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.
--Brenda Peterson
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-Anon.
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
-Richard Bach
"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
-Harry Firestone
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
-Thomas Fuller
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-Johann von Goethe
The harder you work, the luckier you get."
-McAlexander
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your
girlfriends. --Laurie Kuslansky
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
--Ethel Barrymore
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're
all the same.--Unknown
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. --Erma Bombeck
The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul.
--Linda Knight
The earth laughs in flowers. --ee cummings
Draw a crazy picture Write a nutty poem Sing a mumble-gumble song
Whistle through your comb Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen
floor Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
--Shel Silverstien
In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. -Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
Try a little harder to be a little better. -Gordon B. Hinckley
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not our abilities that show who we truly are; it is our choices. J.K. Rowling
It's kind of fun doing the impossible. -Walt Disney
If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney
Too much of a good thing... is wonderful. -May West
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. -Maya Angelou
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.--Jean de La Fontaine
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
--Jim Rohn
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects
he pursues.
If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know
anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
--Michael Chrichton
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has
not laughed.
Good friends are good for your health.
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you
will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver
"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends
are my energy."
-Anon

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal."-Henry Ford
"This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes
everything." -Scott Reed
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out
of life is this: decide what you want." -Ben Stein
"Not all who wander are lost." -J. R. R. Tolkien
Life in abundance comes only through great love. --Elbert Hubbard
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. --Kahlil Gibran
Life is what happens to you while you're working for your future. --Unknown
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Life is pain, princess. . . anyone who says differently is selling something --Wesley, The Princess Bride
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact --Stewart O'Nan
Love absolutely everything that ever happens in your life --Paul Cantalupo, MD
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
There are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it. Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari (1876 – 1917
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne (1907 - 1979)

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard

Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey