“No amount of blessings can benefit you if you don’t take the first step”

“For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.”

“Write your bane in a sand, your blessing in a stone.”

“When you have HOPE, then you become a blessing to someone else”

“The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.”

“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.”

“You’ve been given the innate power to shape your life…but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can’t just want it; you have to do it, live it…BE it! Success isn’t something you have, it’s something you DO!”

“… but the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate the moments life gives you. Getting them certainly isn’t a given, and I feel blessed to have carved out a life here where I could be happy even if it wasn’t quite the happiness I envisioned, if the things I dreamed of never quite came to pass.”

“May you always be true to yourself.”

“Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it’s own was yours and will be yours forever.”

“Use time to create the nature of God in yourself”

“Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive”

“Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?”

“You were not just blessed for yourself,your were blessed to be a blessing toothers.”

“Joblessness is a time for reflection”