Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
- James 1:5

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Victor Frankl

Eat Jell-O, don't be Jell-O. (Anology about not trying to shape yourself to please everyone. Don't mold yourself into something your not.)

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalm 18:2

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 3:13-14

Some people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
- Dr. Robert Anthony

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
- Sineca
Roman Philosopher

When the tail wags the dog, it looks silly. (Anology about not letting your feelings control you.)

Girls are like cell phones. They like to be talked to, but push the wrong button and you'll be disconnected.
- Unknown

Life was so much easier when your clothes didn't match and boys had cooties!
- Unkown

The mystery of understanding what men and women want is also the answer, and we must spend our whole life learning that answer.
- Chad Eastham

The Weight of Glory

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only comes through them, and what came through them was longing. These things- the beauty, the memory of our own past- are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found.
- C. S. Lewis,
The Weight of Glory

Love must be sincere. Cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- Romans 12:9-10

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
- Proverbs 27:17

Babies...

When babies aren't cared for, nurtured or touched for a long period of time, really sad and strange things happen to them. In the first three years of life, the brains of infants who are neglected don't develop the same as in other infants. They have a hard time with motor skills, language, body language, stress levels in the body, and later the aility to identify feelings...

Meaning of Freind

(noun)
1. A person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2. A favored companion.
3. An ally in a fight or cause; a supporter.
4. A parton or supporter.