ten

Always remember to...Smile before bed, you'll sleep better.

nine

Always remember to...



Watch your thoughts; they become your words.



Watch your words; they become your actions.



Watch your actions; they become your habits.



Watch your habits; they become your character.



Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.



---Frank Outlaw

eight

From the five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom:

1. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate the breeze from the wind...Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."

2. "Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices."

3. "Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."

4. "Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end, Love doesn't."

5. "...the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

seven

Always remember...It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice.

(Taken from the bottom of my good friend Rachel's email signature.)

Lost

I've lost my yellow sheet of paper that I have been keeping my quotes on for so, so long. I'm sad. I keep waiting for it to turn up and it won't. I was slowly putting quotes on here that I had on my sheet...now I wish I would have put them all up at once. Maybe I'll keep hope alive and maybe it will still show up. Until then, I'll have to keep my eye open for new ones.

six

Always Remember...Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

I watched a very inspirational video today by Randy Pausch and encourage anyone out there reading to watch it also.

five

Always remember...You are in charge of your own day.

I was at the boys basketball district tournament over the weekend and read this on a piece of artwork in the staff lounge. It made me think of all the grumpy days I've had and really, I don't need to have those grumpy days, I just need to take charge of my grumpy days and make them better.