When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

I remember you always used to talk about someday having a great, big front porch with a rocking chair where you could sit and watch the world around you.  I keep trying to find the perfect one, the one that reminds me most of you.  And I'll keep looking until I find it.  I know that you've got the best view now, from Heaven, but one day I'll find that perfect porch, one I know you would've loved.  I miss you every day.  I love you. IOH4E

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

- Reggie White

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

- Paulo Coelho

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.

-Thomas Merton

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

-Douglas MacArthur

Patrick, Bella and Nick

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

- Henry Ward Beecher