Jim Stovall quotes:

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

Control what you can, acknowledge what you cannot.

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything

Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.

When we help one another, everybody wins.

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

He who loves his work never labors.

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.

The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

There are certain days that are forever locked in our memories. They represent special times, places, and people that we capture in the scrapbook of our minds. Just a fleeting thought of these memories can bring us back to that special time and place as well as the emotion we felt when we were there.