MY FAMILY ALBUM - HOMEPAGE

Life is beautiful ....
Chocolate is ONLY sweet, because it is artificial. Very few natural things are only sweet.
Take fruit for instance —
it has sweet AND sour.
That is how life is. If your life is ONLY sweet, you have an artificial life.
Accept the sweet and sour of life.

Treasures to live by...
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because I, Marie Hansell, have lived.
THIS is to have "succeeded!"

Our lives are made up of a million moments, spent in a million different ways.
Some are spent searching for love, peace and harmony.
Others are spent surviving day to day.
But there is no greater moment than when we find that life,
with all its joys and sorrows,
is meant to be lived one day at a time.
It is in this knowledge that we discover the most wonderful truth of all.
Whether we live in a forty-room mansion, surrounded by servants and wealth,
or find it a struggle to manage the rent month to month,
we have it within our power to be fully satisfied and live a life with true meaning.

One day at a time -
we have that ability through cherishing each moment and rejoicing in each dream.
We can experience each day anew,
and with this fresh start,
we have what it takes to make all of our dreams come true.
Each day is new,
and living one day at a time enables us to truly enjoy life and live it to the fullest!

Marie

Frans

Stephen

Amadea

Alanna