Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anais Nin
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -- Carl Jung
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, `cause men like women who got some sense. -- Maya Angelou
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. -- Edgar Allan Poe
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -- Mark Twain
Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day. -- Johann von Goethe
No day is so bad that it can't be made better with a nap. -- Carrie Snow
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
-- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
It is better to have loved and lost, than to live with the idiot the rest of your life. -- from a popular T-shirt
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -- Dave Gardner