These quotes always encourage me, make me laugh or help me see more clearly.
“Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” –Jim Elliot
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.“ –Jim Elliot
“God waits to be wanted.” –A.W. Tozer
“Refusal to take risks makes for a life of mediocrity at best.“ –Michael LeBoeuf
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I choose to respond to it.“ –Chuck Swindoll
“Making the decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” –Elizabeth Stone
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” –Ogden Nash
“A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.” –Marcelene Cox
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.” –M. Grundler
“Children need your presence more than your presents.” –Jesse Jackson
“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” –William Butler Yeates
“I will get time to rest, time for myself. True, it may not happen for another 18 years, but at least I know the waiting won’t be boring. –Moyra Jean Stiles