"When we build on our strengths and daily successes â€” instead of focusing on failures â€” we simply learn more."

-- Tom Rath

“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”

Source : Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy and the Great World/Betsy's Wedding: Betsy-Tacy Series”, p.22, Harper Collins
“The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn't do it. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.”
“There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.281, D & M Publishers
“It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”
“Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.”
“The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.”
“My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.”

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