Today's Quote (8/24/14):

"Life, is not the way it's supposed to be . . . it's the way it is . . . The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." - Unknown

Today's Quote (1-31-09):

"We can easily manage, if we will only take each day, the burden appointed for it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow to the weight before we are required to bear it." - John Newton

Today's Quote (1-30-09):

"Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men." - Benjamin Disraeli

Today's Quote (1-29-09):

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success."
- Dorothea Brande

Today's Quote (1-28-09):

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man
perfected without trials." - Confucius

Today's Quote (1-27-09):

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
- Dr Samuel Johnson

Today's Quote (1-26-09):

"A person of character can appreciate difficulty, for it is
through difficulty that he can realize his potential."
- Unknown

Today's Quote (1-14-09):

"Sweet are the uses of adversity;"

- Shakespeare, As You Like It,
Act 2, Scene 1, lines 12 through 14

(and continues . . . "Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." Duke Senior is alluding to the mythical Toadstone.)