If you're going through hell, keep going. -winston churchill

A smile is happiness youll find right under your nose.

- Tom Wilson

A whole sea can not drown a ship unless the water gets in, similarly, the negatives in the world can not bring you down unless they get inside of you.

There is more in you than you think.

~Kurt Hahn

Who is smiling, she/he is big.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

- Andy Rooney

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

- Robin Williams

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.