You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. 

-John Wooden

"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation." 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

BY JONNIA SMITH

The
caterpillar
cooperates with its
chrysalis according
to the Greater Order
of the universe,
accepting its sentence of
seclusion without struggle
or complaint. It does not
rage against constraint nor
kick and claw at every
change in the season
of its growth. It
harbors no
illusion of
control.
I
am not
nearly
so
wise.

by Richard Newman

At Steak 'n Shake I learned that if you add
"Bless their hearts" after their names, you can say
whatever you want about them and it's OK.
My son, bless his heart, is an idiot,
she said. He rents storage space for his kids'
toys—they're only one and three years old!
I said, my father, bless his heart, has turned
into a sentimental old fool. He gets
weepy when he hears my daughter's greeting
on our voice mail. Before our Steakburgers came
someone else blessed her office mate's heart,
then, as an afterthought, the jealous hearts
of the entire anthropology department.
We bestowed blessings on many a heart
that day. I even blessed my ex-wife's heart.
Our waiter, bless his heart, would not be getting
much tip, for which, no doubt, he'd bless our hearts.
In a week it would be Thanksgiving,
and we would each sit with our respective
families, counting our blessings and blessing
the hearts of family members as only family
does best. Oh, bless us all, yes, bless us, please
bless us and bless our crummy little hearts.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a Heaven for?

- Robert Browning

A friend did a nice post about me and I want to reciprocate by linking to it.

This is a great and healthful blog that I really enjoy following and have even added some of the recipes to my "give it a try" file.

The blog is called "Two Sisters Share What We Love and Learn"

"Matt's Story" Is here.

Enjoy!

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be naturally loved. 

- CS. Lewis

"We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs."

- Will Rogers