Occupation: Author Birth: October 4, 1947 Death: August 27, 2009
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the fl….
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better..
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes..
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,….
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next..
Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of tim….
How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines….
Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!.
Change is a process not an event..
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat..
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!.
Violets are God's apology for February..
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements..
Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a whi….
When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But….
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, e….
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of -….
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos..
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends..
Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thou….
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays son….