Michelle

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed