I know this has been around forever, but I just received it in another email. As many times as I have read it, it still makes me chuckle so I thought I would share…in hopes of making someone else chuckle!

Hope, Courage & Faith

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Author Unknown

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
Author Unknown

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
Emily Dickinson

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
Author Unknown

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
Mark Hoog

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope is grief’s best music.
Author Unknown

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.
William Penn

While there’s life there’s hope.
Cicero

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw

Updated Nov. 2, 2008

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

We could never learn to be brave and patient , if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Courage is the strength to stand up.. when it is easier to sit down
Author Unknown

And the day came when the risk it took to remain inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Pooh

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandria

Trust your hopes, not your fears.
David Mahoney

He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb

Hope ever tells us tomorrow will be better.
Tibullus

Hope to the end.
1 Peter 1:13

We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Muriel Chen

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

The light of humanity never shines brighter than those moments in which someone reaches into the darkness of another’s suffering to offer comfort.
David L. Weatherford

Updated June 22, 2008

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Colton

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin

I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own and I know that I’m strong enough to mend. And everytime I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith and I live one more day and I make it through the rain
Mariah Carey

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Gandhi

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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes A. Gaertner

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss

Gratitude is a poem whispered from one heart to another.
Author Unknown

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Lionel Hampton

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
Author Unknown

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart — a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water I accept with joy.
Bhagavad Gita

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Motivational, Attitude & Reality Check!

Disappointment is one story and giving up is the end of that story.
Shada AlDahash

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru’ chinks of his cavern.
William Blake

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E.V. Lucas

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Updated Nov. 1, 2008

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t you’re right.
Henry Ford

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the path of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle

Have the determination of a mirror. It never loses its ability to reflect, even if it is broken into thousand pieces.
Author Unknown

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
John Barrymore

Speak when you are angry, you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller

Just for today I will be happy. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime. Just for today…
Sybyl F. Partridge

Updated June 27, 2009

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, count
Einstein

There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last
Jonathan Larsonabout

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

It’s not if glass is half full or half empty that matters. It’s whether your goal is to ration what’s left or to fill it up again.
Unknown

We are not held back by the Love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
M. Williamson

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran

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For the past few years I have been obsessed with the ‘NestCams’ at Cornell Lab of Ornithology website. It is an amazing site (especially if you are a bird lover!) with live cams of various bird families. I have especially been fond of the Barn Owls, watching from the day the first egg is laid until the last Owlet has fledged. Well, this past month or so I have watched…in amazement a Chimney Swift couple build their nest, which is on a completely vertical surface. Mama then laid 4 eggs which were carefully nurtured and rotated for a few weeks and then over this past week…poof!!! 4 little, naked, babies. Mom and dad take shifts but it is not unusual to see both of them, side by side on the nest. This is one of the most amazing families I have watched and thought I would share with you!

Just over a week old, the babies seem to already have out grown the nest. One nestling bobbles his head over the edge between mama’s feathers. How cute is this…

Oh dear God! What have I done now I thought as the silver inked pen I was using exploded all over my oak dining room table. Of course, although the table was partially covered to help prevent damage in case of an accident….the ink ended up all over the wood. It could not have poured on there so strategically. Help! (I scream) My boyfriend runs in, his first instinct is to take a picture. Of what, my new silver lined Oak table? (wtf? really!) I wipe up what I can, flick the damn camera out of his hand and run for the cleaner….somethings gotta work! I spray the table down and we both start scrubbing. I am freaking out, he is mumbling about the camera. That’s when it happened, the ink, like magic started vanishing. The more I spray, the more we scrub, the perttier it gets!! My table had never looked so good, so shiny. It was beautiful. As we stood back admiring our work of art, my boys walked in. I started with the whole story and was immediately interrupted by both of them. It is very rude to interrupt I remind them and continue with my story. They aren’t listening and it becomes obvious they are distracted by something. I finally slow down long enough to listen to what they were saying. Apparently there was a strong odor within the house……well now that they mention it….I have a headache….it smells like poison. Have they saved our lives? We look around and can’t find anything, I quickly grab the can of “Pledge” I had been cleaning with and show it to them….
“This is all I can think of….the silver pen exploded….I was so worried my table was ruined…..”
The look they gave me was priceless, priceless and humiliating.
“RAID, you cleaned it up with RAID???!!!”
Well, that explained the smell.
I guess I inadvertently grabbed the wrong bottle, they look alike, kinda. But hey, guess what??? It worked like a charm. My table never looked so good.
Then the fumes took over….don’t remember much after that.