• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.    (Albert Einstein)
• I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.     (Jimmy Dean)
• I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.  
  

          (Michael Jordan)

• A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.      (Nelson Mandela)
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.         (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.     (Henry Ford)
• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.     (Alice Walker)
• Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.     (Oprah Winfrey)
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.      (Helen Keller)
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.   (Norman Vincent Peale)
  
• Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.     (George Herbert)
• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.        (Amelia Earhart)
• Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.     (George Whitefield)
• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.    (Charles Swindoll)
• There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.     (Michael Phelps)
• You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.     (Babe Ruth)
• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.     (Thomas A. Edison) 
• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.           (Aristotle Onassis)
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.   (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. (Og Mandino)
• It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.  (Vince Lombardi)
• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.    
  

          (Winston Churchill)
 
Blessings,
Lisa Beretz, 518-330-9277

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.  When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.  They have come to assist you through a difficulty; to provide you with guidance and support; to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.  They may seem like a godsend, and they are.  They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.  Sometimes they die.  Sometimes they walk away.  Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.  The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.  They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.  They may teach you something you have never done.  They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.  Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.  Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
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Blessings,
Lisa Beretz, 518-330-9277