A Mother & Daughter’s Love Is Never Separated – Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself (LZ Granderson)

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved (Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control)

Nothing is easier than self-deceit (Demosthenes)

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing (Jean Toomer)

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Let’s start over shall we? Hello gorgeous. I’m Justin McKinley. I’m head baker at Le Chef Petite. I’d love to get to know you better. Can I seduce you with my vast knowledge of sweet and sensual desserts?”Alicia couldn’t help it. She giggled. One of those girly, I’ve-been-flirting bubbly – Lea Barrymire, Justin’s Desserts

I began to understand that dancing well had everything to do with believing you could. Like those dreams of flying- dipping gracefully through the air in your weightless body- if in your sleep, you stopped to think about it for more than half a second, you’d crash like a sack of dead ducks onto the roof of a church (Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard)

I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness (Susan Donovan, The Girl Most Likely To…)

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)