Thursday Thoughts

As I am preparing to send my heart on deployment, I am reminded of this:

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Thursday Thoughts

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

–Maya Angelou

Thursday Thoughts

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

–Lee Iacocca

Thursday Thoughts

Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn.

–Melanie Joy

**Thankful to my Grandpa Bill, and Family really, for gifting me with my thirst for learning.