Kathzoofus

"What if you quit being defeated?" Rob McCarron (my brother)

"Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past." -Landrum Bolling

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time." - Sara Paddison

It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. -Somerset Maugham

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances." - J. Donald Walters

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." -Ann Landers

"Avoiding the phrase 'I don’t have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life." – Bo Bennett

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -Indira Gandhi

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." - Leo Buscaglia

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. " -Thomas Merton

"Build a dream and the dream will build you." - Robert Schuller

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." -Confucius

I recently received an email request from a publisher that wanted to know if I would be interested in reviewing a couple of new books that they have recently released. After reading a little bit about the books I quickly agreed knowing that my daughter would really be VERY interested in the books. She agreed to read and review each of them. She read two books from The Fairy Chronicles collection by J.H. Sweet . Before I share her reviews (posted below) let me tell you that my daughter is an incredible reader. She has started and finished very large novels in just a matter of days. She also knows quite clearly what she likes and doesn't like and all of her friends are fans of the same types of books that she enjoys. When we received the books in the mail my daughter was reading the first one before I finished pulling the second one out of the package. She took the first book to school to read during breaks. When she came home she asked if she would be allowed to keep the boo...

"This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger. Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning." Garrison Keillor

"I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When I was twelve, the words was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see out destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we’re told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither in themselves. After you get so far away fro it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of kno...

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces." -Og Mandino

"Each impression you make will--temporarily, at least--be your last. So make it strong." ~Harry Beckwith

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination." -Dan Zadra

"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

"Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us. " -Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies"