VERSES FOR ENCOURAGEMENT & INSPIRATION

• CANCER cannot: cripple love, shatter hope, corrode faith, destroy peace, kill friendship; It cannot suppress memories, silence courage, invade the soul, steal eternal life, or conquer the Spirit.
  
• All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.
    
• No matter how impossible it all may seem ... ... never underestimate the power of a dream.
    
• What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.
    
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
    
• To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be as much as we can be, we must dream of being more.
    
• What is success? To laugh often and much; to earn the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeeming social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, to love and be loved by others ... this is to have succeeded. Emerson
     
• This is the beginning of a new day; God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it--or use it for good, but what I do with it is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, not loss; good, not evil; success and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it. Dr. H. Wilson
     
• Take time to smell the lilacs and feel the bright warm sun. Take time to look at rainbows; don't wait till work is done. There’ll always be a cobweb, some finger marks or dust, weeds to pull, a lawn to mow, and something gathering dust. We must remember lilacs bloom just once a year, and you can see a rainbow only when it’s here. (Good for retirement also)
    
• A man is never so tall as when he kneels before God, never more dependable than when he depends on God, never so strong as when he draws upon God's strength, never so wise as when in his lack of wisdom he seeks God's divine guidance. Truly the man who relies on God will be the most reliable.
     
• RISKS To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. Risks must be taken ... because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love ... ... live. Chained to his certitudes, he is a slave. He has forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free. Carol Sapin Gold
    

Many verses for teachers, nurses, doctors, coaches, professions, sports, graduation, promotions, communion & confirmation, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, and many other special occasions. Pat’s collection also includes verses for life in general, hobbies, interests, military, vocations, for those going through rough times…something for almost every situation and interest.  If one of these pieces can brighten someone’s day, with a note of encouragement or understanding or just a laugh, her purpose has been achieved!