invest in your life

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt

cheer

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
~Buddy the Elf (ELF movie)

growth

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~Ronald E. Obsorn

dog's love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
~Josh Billings

selfishness

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
~Oscar Wilde

forgive/forget

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
~Thomas Szasz

becoming

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
~J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire)

the art of living

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Henry Ellis

believe

Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'
~Dr. Robert H. Schuller

joy

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
~Helen Keller

kindness

One kind word can warm three winter months.
~Japanese proverb

life pursuits

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
~Albert Einstein

World AIDS Day

It's bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
~Elizabeth Taylor