“Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of the fire. Happiness is something…

    “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage           of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”        …

              ” Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing.”                            …

  “Hardships often prepare ordinary people                  for an extraordinary destiny.”                        …

                                 “Integrity is not a conditional word.                …

“A good character is the best tombstone…     Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”          ~ Charles H. Spurgeon   (paraphrased)   I am…

                               “The wind and the waves…                are always on…

              “Neither fire, nor moisture, nor wind can destroy         the blessing of a good deed,  and it will reform the…

                            “Real difficulties can be overcome;        it is only the imaginary ones that are…

” We are each gifted in a unique and important way.             It is our privilege and our adventure            …