My Mission Statement

My Mission Statement
I am following my heart to Uganda to love, accept, and cherish the children I haven’t met yet. I am laying down my own life for the people of Uganda who so easily could have been born in my place on this earth, and I in theirs. I wish to know their stories, their fears, their dreams, and their laughs. I will keep my eyes and ears open to see those in front of me, living in each moment, rather than passing them by unnoticed. I must not waste breath on how I suffer, but rather how I am being changed through my suffering, and how I affect those given to me.

1.21.2011

Inspirational Quotes

 "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide

"This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease." - Robert F. Kennedy

"I've learned that people will forget what you've said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel." - Maya Angelou

"What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now."
- Buddha

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover."
- Mark Twain

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy