"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."--Abraham Lincoln
You are an extraordinary woman, how can you expect to live an ordinary life? ~Louisa May Alcott
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. ~Alexandra Stoddard
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filed a niche and accommplished tasks as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ~Chinese Proverb
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
You are your choices. ~Jean Paul Sartre
May you live all the days of your life. ~Jonathan Swift
You are the spell the Universe has cast. ~Phyllias Curott
It is a special vanity of Southern women to believe that they are different from other American women. ~Sharon McKern, author of Redneck Mothers, Gool ol' Girls and other Southern Belles
No one has to justify buying a strand of pearls. ~common knowledge among Southern women
The drawl-which accents the rhapsodic blend of beauty, grace, charm, ingenuity, and strength-is the gorgeous red bow that completes the Southern woman's package. ~Rhonda Rich
God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. ~Job 37:5
Happiness is a warm puppy. ~Charles Schultz
