Kathzoofus

"You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are." - Edgar A. Guest .

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." - Timothy Leary

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end." -Julius Erving

"The only people to get even with are those who have helped you." -Anonymous

"Problems are a sign of life." Norman Vincent Peale

“ You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” - Jim Rohn

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day-to-day living that wears you out. -Anton Chekhov

"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...