Found these while looking online today and thought I'd share:)

Peace and faith,
shelly

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections

 

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

 

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

 

 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. 

 

 

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

 

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

 

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

 

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

 If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

-- Edited by shellyj123 on Tuesday 12th of January 2010 12:29:39 PM