"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)
"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans." Proverbs 16:3 (NIV)
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit." Matthew 12:33 (NIV)
"Faith is not believing that God can - it's knowing that He will" Unknown
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward
"The wise man never takes a step too long for his leg." Egyptian Proverb
"You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down" Bateke Proverb
“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.” Max Lucado
"If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents." African Proverb
"Friendship doubles joy and halves grief." African Proverb
"If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just begun." Wolof Proverb
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” Thomas Merton
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” Harriet Tubman
"When the drummers change their beats, the dancers must also change their steps." African Proverb
“‘It’s impossible,’ said pride. ‘It’s risky,’ said experience. ‘It’s pointless,’ said reason. ‘Give it a try,’ whispered the heart.”
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." Meg Cabot
"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." Yogi Berra
Just because you’re better than you used to be doesn’t mean you don’t need to be better than you are now.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision” Hellen Keller
In order to discover the depths, we must first leave the comfort of the shore.
Love gives; Hope belives; and Faith acts.
Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve; Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we DO deserve. I'm thankful for both!
"You do what you have to do, so you can do what you want to do." The Great Debaters
"If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright; if one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked." Naija Proverb
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb." Psalm 139:13 (NIV)
To Achieve All That Is Possible, We Must Attempt The Impossible. To Be As Much As We Can Be, We Must Dream of Being More. Gale Baker Stanton
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up" Paul Valery.
today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. inhale, exhale and keep it moving.
"When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches." (Nigerian Proverb)
"Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats." A. Branson Alcott
"Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny." George Dana Boardman
"It is a lazy man who says 'it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds.'" Nigerian Proverb
"Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again." Wolof Proverb
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents" Andrew Carnegie
I plant musical seeds to grow possibilities that the life you lead will fill a need…in others.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
"I pointed out to you the moon and the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger..." - Sukuma (Tanzania) Proverb
"The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth." - Akan Proverb (Ghana, Ivory Coast)
"The jealous man loses his flesh by looking at the fat bellies of others." Congolese Proverb
"People were created to be loved, things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used." Unknown
"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming" ~ courtesy of Dory from Finding Nemo
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in" Greek Proverb
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up..."
"It is the same moon that wanes today that will be the full moon tomorrow; however long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again."
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." African Proverb
To those of you that are following your dreams: Just because the road is rocky doesn't mean that you've made the wrong decision. Selah...
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Frederick Douglass.
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