Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the cotillion, there gathered flocks of giggling girls as high-spirited as their bouffant coiffures.

~Jodi Diderrich

Trying to fly that’s all she can do ~ daring to dance in pink shoes makes perfect sense when dreams come true ~

~Suzanne Simonovich

As the sun rides on a white swan, crayfish are happy to swim along ~ a dragonfly flirts with translucent ease, friends sit by the shore absorbing it all ~

~Suzanne Simonovich

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Winston Churchill

I’m softly drifting like the snow ~ it’s beautiful falling slowly to you- this natural occurrence allows a once in a lifetime glow ~

~Suzanne Simonovich

The wind is at her heals ~ the snow’s upon her breast ~ a lamp is seen in the distance, she hurries to a joyful scene ~

~Suzanne Simonovich

The girl from Ipanema strolled the beach ~ I felt so strange, I had to know her name- my heals tread the sand as I ran to take her hand ~

~Suzanne Simonovich