I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire

It is not a parent's job to protect their
kids from life, but to prepare them for it.
-— Blake Segal

"The worst part of censorship is [bleep]."
-Anonymous

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall
never have a beginning." J.H. Newman

"People try to rain on your parade, because they have no
parade of their own." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite." -– Robert Half

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." -–Gustave Flaubert

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."-– George Lucas

"Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do." -– Brian Tracy

Some people feel the rain...others just get wet -unknown-

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
-- Charles Buxton

Some people are making such thorough plans
for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
- William Feather

Millions long for immortality who do not
know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.
- Philippine proverb

Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Treat the earth well:
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
We borrow it from our children.
~~Native American Proverb, unknown author

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

---Phyllis Diller

"Teacher and God are standing before me,
Who shall I bow to, first?

I would bow to the teacher,
who showed me the way to God."

- Kabir Das, Indian mystical poet and saint.

"The bitterness of cheap quality is long remembered after the sweetness of low price is long forgotten"

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."
--James Matthew Barrie