Although we cannot control the struggles we unexpectedly face, we do possess a quality - resilience - that helps us overcome the pain and maintain hope. Resilience brings us back to our dreams when the storm is over. 

                --- Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander, Dream It Do It

​Whether your day was full of progress or crushing setbacks, optimism is the choice to value experiences and continue believing better will come.
                                                                        --- ​Zander Tsadwa

​Remaining positive, looking for ways to respect ourselves and others, finding things we can approve of, and generally looking for a positive perspective creates a positive spiral that opens the imagination to positive solutions.

                                                                  --- ​Stephen G. Barkley

​What you envision

Just a little ways beneath the surface of all you do, exist the happiness and fulfillment you long for. In everything you experience is the potential for the highest level of adventure you can imagine.

You are only one thought away from recognizing the positive potential of w​hatever situation you’re in. The profound joy that comes from living with purpose and with love is always well within your reach.

Your greatest adventure awaits, not in some vague and distant scenario, but right here and now. Will today be the day you summon the courage to accept and engage in that adventure?

Pierce through the thin layer of doubts, excuses, and denials. Connect yourself fully to the unique living miracle that is your legacy and your destiny.

Raise your experience to a level that is consistent with your highest values and most treasured dreams. Live the way you are meant to live, right where you are.

Change everything for the better by changing your thoughts for the better. What you envision in the deepest part of you, is exactly who you are.

​— Ralph Marston

​God's blessings will allow you to prosper regardless of your situation; they will make you productive and fruitful even in the midst of famine, drought, or economic recession.

                                                                   --- Dr. Joe Osei Kodie

Determination

I will not let life conquer me,
I will above it rise.
And when the dark gloom round
I'll glance into the skies.

I will not let the little things
Annoy me hour by hour:
I'll turn away and look to see
His beauty in a flower.

I will not let this earthly house
Keep all my thoughts in clay.
My soul must always listen
To what the angels say.

I will not let myself forget
Some loveliness I see,
For surely I may carry it
Into eternity.

I will not let this little span
Mark a time of weeping;
A golden voice will whisper that
I am in His keeping.

So welcome, life, in soft white robe
Or in a scarlet dress,
Oh, play with me and baffle me;
I have my happiness.

--- ​Louise Mount

​I believe that we are all given something in life that we must learn to overcome because it is within that hurdle that we must cross and began on a road filled with endless
possibilities.
                                                                       --- Wilda L. Riggs

 
​Life may not be going well for you now, but as long as you are here, as long as you press forward, anything is possible. Hold on to hope.
                                                                           --- Nick Vujicic

 
​Clarity will eliminate clutter and empower your soul, causing it to bring and attract your desires and aspirations into your life more quickly.
                                                                         --- Ian McTavish

Let life speak to you
Let life speak to you. With no complaint or agenda or expectation or judgment on your part, let life reveal its truth.

Open yourself to experience what’s really there, what’s actually happening. See the beauty, feel the texture, observe the cycles and rhythms that continue on and on.

Seek to taste life, to appreciate its wonder, not to capture or to possess it. Endeavor to work within life’s realities, not to overpower or control those realities.

Let life be, and let yourself be one with it, at peace with it. Understand that you will never fully understand, and draw deep wisdom from that awareness.

Know that each ending opens the way for a new beginning. Watch as life changes, and remains ever the same.

Sincerely experience and celebrate life. Let life speak to you, let life come to you, and let life find authentic, beneficial expression in all you do.

​---  Ralph Marston