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"Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me."
"The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed"
"Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime."
"Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today"
"The most important things in your home are people."
"The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays."
"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 - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?"
"As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!"
"God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles."
"Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life."
"God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he controls everything we do. It doesn't mean he puts a bridle on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his. When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response. But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the bitter end."
"All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch."
"Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional"
"We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be."
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away."
"Violets are God's apology for February."
"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 time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you."
"Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos."
"Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull."
"Choices not chance determine your destiny."