Victimization

He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

            -Benjamin Franklin

Clocks Clicking On During the Storm

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

            -Robert Louis Stevenson

'Taking Less When More Is Available'

Sometimes life has a way of forcing us to become content with less.  But the real test lies in whether or not we can be content with less when more becomes available.

- K. Michael Prewitt

Beauty

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

            -Victor Hugo

Living On

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

            - Anonymous

The Paradox of Giving, But Receiving

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.

            - Hindu Proverb

'This Everyday Living'

‘Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard; ‘tis the living up to it that is difficult.

            - William Makepeace Thackeray

Suspicions & Conspiracies

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

            - William Shakespeare

Opportunity

Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

            - Ovid

The Morning

One is wiser in the morning than in the evening.

           - Russian Proverb