"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - - We believe that the Bullying Awareness & Prevention Alliance (BAPA) brings unique gifts and ideas to the community.

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better" - G. C.Lichtenberg

"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick" - Henry David Thoreau

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" – Frederick Douglass

"We are human. Be comfortable with this fact" – Brian Good

"You are what you are and that is who you are!" – Erin, New Orleans, Louisiana

"No one is all good nor is one person all bad" – Brian Good

"What you choose today, you live with tomorrow" – unknown author

"Time stops for no one, and if we allow ourselves to focus on the negative we might miss out on some really amazing things that life has to offer" – Shannon Spaunburg

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem" - Mohandas Gandhi

"If you can't afford to fly into Earth's orbit, then flying Delta Airlines First Class is the next best thing. - Brian Good

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." –unknown author

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller

"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are." - Rachel Naomi

"Find me and you will find yourself." – Brian Good

"God's gift to us is the gift of life and your gift to God is what you do with your life." - Joe Langton

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." - Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

"A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it." - Lindsay Wagner

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey

"You can't put a Band- Aid on every boo- boo you've made; some just need time to heal." – MOM

"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood." - Susie Bright

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music." - Billy Joel

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"To heal from the inside out is the key." - Wynonna Judd

"Perhaps we are finally on the edge, the cutting edge of survival and we as a people will - must wake up. Be more diligent, more generous and above all more conscious." - Aisha Bauer

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase, The Tragedy of Waste

"Do you believe because you understand, or do you understand because you believe?" - unknown author

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"Challenges, hardships and obstacles are what life is all about so being ready to deal with life's sudden changes." – Brian Good

"We are all human, be happy with this fact." – Brian Good

"Sometimes you must find a way to live even if you did not get the proper guidance from your parents because you are the one who is responsible for your own life and the decisions you make." – Brian Good

"Talk the talk…walk the walk… Do as you say but it is also how you say it." – Brian Good

"We are chained by the negatives of society and fears of the recession!" We have the key….Just unlock your chain. It is a choice. .. Free will."" – Brian Good

"Take responsibility for the decisions that you have made in the past that have bought you to where you are in life." – Brian Good

"How can an awakening harm us unless we have not awoken." – Brian Good

"The sum of your challenges, hardships and obstacles can become your strength." – Brian Good

"When you remember the past too much you don't heal and this can lead to depression." – Brian Good

"When you try to view the future too much, it can cause anxiety. But when you live in the Now, it makes you right, glad to be living in the moment." – Brian Good

"The 4R's - Rethink suicide. - Reduce your debt to society. - Reuse what's left of your mind. - Recycle whatever you use in raw materials." – Brian Good

"Learn to live. Learn to be alive. Embrace your existence, hug someone, smile at a stranger. Watch a sunset, hug the moon and embrace the stars." –unknown author

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair." – Samuel Johnson

"Time heals all wounds." –unknown author

"Today, I will stay in the eye of my hurricane where I am safe from the storm around me. I will deal with my hurricanes and struggles in life with no blame or excuses." – Brian Good

"It is nice to be popular but it is popular to be nice." – Brian Good

"If you are comfortable with yourself, others will be comfortable with you." –unknown author

"Our compulsions make us who we are!" – Mary, Gulf Breeze, FL

"When one door shuts another opens. Be quick to decide at times for the door may close on you!" – Brian Good

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." - William Ernest Henley

"Forget about whom you were; accept who you are, and who you can be." - Brian Good

"You will not to be held captive by fear, anxiety and depression." – Brian Good

"Live well…choose to live well." most of all…you can choose to live." – Brian Good

"Do not trouble, trouble or trouble will trouble you." –unknown author

"May you be content with yourself just the way you are." - Saint Therese Prayer for inner peace.

"In order to follow the right path, we must overcome these obstacles. Sometimes these obstacles are really blessings in disguise, only we don't realize that at the time." –Shannon Spaunburg

"Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain." –unknown author

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos (Pop Rock Singer)

"Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin." - Tori Amos (Pop Rock Singer)

"I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything." - Mary J. Blige (Singer Song Writer)

"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self- discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." - Sophia Loren

"Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos (Pop Rock Singer)

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." - Baltasar Gracian

"I used to blame my father and mother and people I knew for ever hurt, but now; having forgiven them for everything, I blame noone for allowing myself to be hurt." - Brian Good

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us." - Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." – Aesop

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau

"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate." - Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." - W. Somerset Maugham

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it ." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey

"Choose to live through your hurricanes of life." - Brian Good

"We should be remembered for the passion we had for our life's work and not for our material gain." - Brian Good

"I did not realize how much I had before my hurricanes occurred but each time after I survived the storm." I wanted to live." – Brian Good

"If I can make it happen even with my category 5 hurricanes, and not evacuating like I was advised. If I can get up and physically, mentally and emotional become more functional and then take the ball over the goal line. Then why can't you do it." – Brian Good

" Death was at my door 9 times." - Brian Good

"No se rodee de gente sin expectativas, asi no crecera." - Carmen Alvarez Disibio

"Don't surround yourself with people who don't have expectations, you will not grow." - Carmen Alvarez Disibio

"Be the change you wish to see in this world. - Ghandi

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