Author Archives: Cathy Burnham Martin

” If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.” — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Scottish novelist

  “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”  — Mae West (1893 – 1980) American actress

  “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” Mark Twain (1835-1910) 19th Century American author and humorist; pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Sometimes we can make ourselves happy. Sometimes we share happiness with others. Most times, happiness is a decision. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” — Dolly Parton (1946 – … Continue reading →

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”  — Socrates (? – 399 BC) Greek philosopher

    “Cookies are made of butter and love.” — Norwegian proverb

    “Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author

  “Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” — Diogenes Laërtius (180-240 AD) Biographer of the Greek philosophers

  “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” — Epictetus  (? – 135AD) Greek Stoic Philosopher

  “He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.” — Arabian proverb

“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” — Eeyore (character from “Winnie-the-Pooh” books) A.A. Milne (1882 – 1956) British author

  “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) American writer

“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German theoretical theorist, physicist, & creator of the … Continue reading →