Dana Ellis:  

s a guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into your life. Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting lost days. Whatever you can do, or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power and genius in it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." ~ Kahlil Gibran Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.--Barbara De Angelis The best index to a person's character is: a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and b) how he treats people who can't fight back - Abigail van Buren Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ~Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)~ Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant "Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand--an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves." quoted by RM Bucke. You attract not what you want but who you are. If you want to change something in your life, focus on the inner, and God will take care of the outer. Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Love the ones who don’t just because you can. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Kiss slowly. Forgive quickly. God never said life would be easy. He just promised it would be worth it. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms, or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke "We give our hearts over to so many things other than God. We look to so many other things for life. I know I do. Especially the very gifts he himself gives to us- they become more important to us than he is. That's not the way it it supposed to be. As long as our happiness is tied to the things we can lose, we are vulnerable." John Eldredge. "I don't want to come to the end of someone else's life"-Isak Dinesen "The greatest bar to progress is contempt prior to investigation"-can't remember who said it Your vision will become clear only when you look inside your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens." Carl Jung "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." Marcel Proust "Beautiful people do not just happen...The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern...Beautiful people do not just happen..." ~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross Laugh out loud. Cry in the rain. Love with all your heart and soul. Get hurt. Tell the truth. Go crazy. But never forget that you only get one shot. One shot at this day, one shot at this minute. One shot at this age. One shot at life. So make sure your life is one you will enjoy watching in your final moments. ~Anna Floyd Everything that's in your mind is a belief. The function of the mind is to produce beliefs about what you see, hear, feel. And that's useful. But you keep forgetting that what you think is only a belief. Every time you take any of your thoughts (or someone else's thoughts) as THE truth, you judge And with every judgment you grow farther and farther from God. Stop. Start coming closer to God through acceptance of other, different from yours, perspectives on life. Impossible is a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world that they've been given, than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is an opinion, not a fact. Impossible isn't a declaration, it's a dare." --- Quoted from Geeta ---- In other words, she wants us to dare the impossible. "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way." Victor Frankl Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should & let go of what you can't change.". More about Dana:"I enjoy my work (health care) but my greatest pleasure in life is my son. I enjoy being around him and watching him mature into a young man. I have a wonderful family and am blessed to have many good friends, from all of the different aspects of my life. I'm simply a lucky woman. My life has never been better than it is right now.".