Words worth keeping

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.