Honestly, I don't know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Why don't you read the Good News of God.

A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.

Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen, Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!

With a lump forming in his throat, he thought about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw-up like his dad when it came...

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned...

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.

We don't look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty they contain. The inspiration...

Love doesn't make you a poet

We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

On a silent moonlit night look at the sky and see yourself dancing with those distant twinkling stars.

I am a fan of humanity and its all-encompassing beauty.

One day I'll paint the perfect sunset - - if I can only find the words.

If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?

A spark begins a bonfire... be that spark.

Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom.

One who has hope lives differently.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you....

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's...

You're like that single wild flower that grows from the crack in the pavement: miraculous growth with no water source or fertile soil. A person walking by would step around that flower to avoid...

When God said 'Let there be light', maybe he meant it inside.

Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.

Dare to be different.

When dreams become words to share with others - amazing things can happen.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.