No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.