My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. — Gene Oliver
I am grateful for the present, the past is gone,  and while our future is only seconds away,the present is right now,  and at [...]

If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful — Unknown
When I would think about the past I would often think of regrets, regret for things I had done, regret for things I had not [...]

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. — Benjamin Disraeli
It used to be that days would pass, and I would get nothing accomplished, time would just slip through my fingers. I felt unproductive, as if I wasn’t contributing enough to this world, or [...]

Never stop believing in dreaming, and never stop dreaming of believing. That is what gives us hope, and what keeps us alive. — Unknown

I am grateful for hope
For almost two years I walked around in a state of confusion, I didn’t know who I was, I didn’t know where I was going, I knew there [...]

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. — Unknown
Cliff Notes:
I am grateful for opportunities.
Long drawn out rambling post:
I am on the right path, and how do I know this? Because so many opportunities have made themselves available to me in the past week, every time I turn around I’m getting [...]

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. — Unkown
While I cannot take full credit for the man I am today, neither will I not take any credit at all, which is why I am grateful for persistence.
In the last two years there were [...]

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.– William Kennedy
This morning among other things, I am grateful for my blog.
I love writing in my blog, I [...]

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. — Corrie Ten Boom
Is the world a dark dreary place for you?
When you allow yourself only to focus on the negative, life becomes a dark dreary place, [...]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.–Carl Bard
I am grateful that every morning brings me a new opportunity to put the past behind me, and create my present reality. It is not only important I learn to forgive [...]

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. — Harry S. Truman
I am grateful for a job.
I have done [...]