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Attitude is your best weapon against life's most difficult challenges.

~ Dave  Bexfield

 

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When you laugh with others you can't help but bounce a little joy back into your own heart.

~ John Dealey

 

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Happiness is when your heart, mind and soul are aligned in action.

~ Ruchira Agrawal

 

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

~Maya Angelou

 

Today is World AIDS Day.  For more information about how you can help or statistics, please consider http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/ and http://www.worldaidsday.org/. Also, for testing locations, check out http://www.hivtest.org/.

 

Pictured above are teens sharing at a summer camp for HIV positive kids.

 

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Gratitude.  It turns what we have into enough.

~ unknown

 

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Make it safe for people to disagree with you. You’ll be surprised by how much you can learn.

~ Dr. Rodger Duncan

 

Pictured above is F. W. de Klerk, the last President of apartheid-era South Africa, and Nelson Mandela.

 

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Try not to become a [person] of success but a [person] of value.

~ Albert Einstein

 

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Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

~ Allen  Klein

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Your story is not what happens to you in your life; rather it is what you make happen in your life that is your story.

~ Kerri  Zane

 

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Love deeply and believe completely, speak truthfully and listen openly. Pray faithfully and act courageously, share passionately and sleep peacefully.

~ Anna  Taylor

 

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It's not until you have the courage to step off the ledge that you'll realize you've had wings all along.

~ Gail Lynne Goodwin

 

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The only way to get what you want is to risk being uncomfortable. The greater your gratitude for discomfort, the greater the opportunity.

~ Chris  Cade

 

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Each day I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love.

~ unknown

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

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Be honest with yourself about how you feel, because only then can you be honest with others about what you need.

~ Miriam Owens

 

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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

 

Today is Universal Children's Day as recognized by the UN to commemorate the passing of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.

 

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

~ Will Rogers

 

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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'

- Anne Lamott

 

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The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph’.

- Author Unknown

 

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When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors.

- Joseph Campbell

 

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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

~J.K. Rowling

 

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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.

- Bernard M. Baruch

 

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

~ Leo Buscaglia

 

Today is World Kindness Day. We hope you are touched by each and every day!

 

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I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my troubles.

- Kaminer, Baraitot de Rabbi Yitzhak

 

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Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

- Ken Blanchard

 

Pictured above are emergency workers during hurricane Sandy.

 

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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If every action you made had loving intentions, if every move we made was born of love, the world would be healed, the world would be whole.

~ Brycen R. R. Couture

 

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Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold; but so does a hard-boiled egg.

~ Unknown

 

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You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

~ James G. Bilkey

 

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Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

~ Adlai Stevenson

 

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The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

 

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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go.  The past is over.  Forgive yourself and move on.

~ Bernie S. Siegel

 

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

 

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A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

~ William G. T. Shedd

 

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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

~ John Muir