LIFE'S TRUTHS
"When you have a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."
~William James
"An optimist is a person who starts working on a crossword puzzle with an ink pen."
~Anonymous
"Failure is God's way of saying, 'Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction.'"
~Oprah Winfrey
"Ignorance is bliss."
~Thomas Grey
"It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?"
~Jennifer Garner in Parade
"Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been."
~Jimmy Buffett Barefoot Children in the Rain
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"All that glissens is not gold."
~Thomas Grey
"...Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty."
~Richard Lovelace
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
~Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hyperion)
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives."
~Samuel Johnson