LIFE: an attempt at some comic relief

Good Quotes

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." -Bertha Calloway
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"We're adults...when did that happen and how do we make it stop?" ~Grey's Anatomy
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." ~Mark Twain
"One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it." ~A.R. Ammons
Would our gifts be worthy if they cost us nothing?
"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."
"We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."
"Please spare me your speeches about 'That’s just the way I am.' I’ve heard that from too many people who wanted to sin and call it psychology.” Elder Holland
The soul is like a violin string - it makes music only when it gets stretched.