"Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrow of our past and the joy in our future."

Forget the day that has been cut off from your existence. 

In a brief conversation, a man asked a woman he was pursuing the question: "What kind of man are you
 looking for?"

She sat quietly for a moment before looking him in the eye & asking, "Do you really want to know?"

Reluctantly, he said, "Yes." 

She began to expound: 

"As ....

The captain of the boat lost his way in the middle of a storm. While trying to control the ship and maneuver to avoid sinking, he started feeling anguish and frustration. The waves became bigger; the noise of the water hitting the boat, like a feather carried by the wind, ....