my future children, my grandmother when she was 20
wisdom from people with more life experience than i:
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." -Lou Holtz
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Gil Bailie
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -James Truslow Adams
"...courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." -Nelson Mandela
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." -from Faust
"We will find only what we look for. Nothing more and nothing less." -unknown
"Let him that would move the world first move himself." -Socrates
"Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner resources." -John Berryman, Dreamsong #14