Thoughtful Thursday

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
- Neil Postman

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want."
- Italian Proverb

"Success is how you bounce when you hit bottom."
- George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Many people have too much will power. It's won't power they lack."
- John Shedd

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I have not been afraid of excess. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
- William Somerset Maugham

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."
- William Shakespeare