IF 'FORWARD'

Courage is fear that has said its prayers

and decided to go forward anyway.

- Joyce Meyer

IF 'DISGUISE'

Fate gives us 3 teachers, 3 friends, 3 enemies and 3 great lovers in our life.

But these 12 are always disguised and we can never know which is which until we've loved them, left them or fought them.

- Gregory D. Roberts

IF 'INFLUENCE'

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

- E. M. Foster

IF 'SWELL'

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

IF 'IMPERFECT'

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into it's system of laws.

- Pat Conroy

IF 'OBSESSION'

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

- Claude Monet

IF 'PERENNIAL'

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

- Max E. Desiderata

IF 'GESTURE'

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

- Libba Bray

IF 'STAY'

A dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows, and the dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store, makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shore.

- Garth Brooks

IF 'REMEDY'

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

- H. D. Thoreau

IF 'LESSON'

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons

. - Vic Johnson

- Time -

'Some things in life may change
And some things
They stay the same..

Like time, there's always time
On my mind
So pass me by, I'll be fine
Just give me time..'

- Teddy -
(2004)

an old-time-favorite.