Indian Summer

The Indian Summer warms my heart, even as it is still reeling from waves of devastating grief.  Can't I just put some of this comfort in a jar to save for the coming winter?

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you,
pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

~Robert Schuller

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, 

never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

~Flavia Weedn

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

~Edmund Hillary

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe