Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers

I am pleased and grateful for this ball of rock and iron and the grand fortuitousness and serendipity of life on earth. The odds of our existence are so infinitesimally small that it boggles the mind. Yet we take it for granted. Make the most.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire

If you were reading the book of your life, what would you want to happen next? Are there things you wish you could do, things you would like to say, places you would like to go? Do those things, say those things, go to those places. You are not reading your story, you're writing it, … Continue reading Choose your own adventure.

We are what we make of ourselves. Aim high, aim for the stars, and we may yet clear the rooftops. We will need courage, tenacity, motivation, and a good sense of humor on the route. Quality of character, happiness, fulfillment of potential and of human needs can be improved through changed values, through redirection of … Continue reading We Are