V.C. Andrews Quote

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.

The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.