This Very Moment

Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment. -Chad Sugg

Love and a Cough

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love. -Anne Sexton

Without Flinching

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. -Jim Butcher

Wonders and Realities

The more clearly we focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we have for destruction. -Rachel Carson

Excitement

Many people think excitement is happiness, but when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. -Thích Nhất Hạnh

Forgiveness

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

Answers

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. -Patrick Rothfuss

Love and Memory

We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. -Cassandra Clare

Children

The soul is healed by being with children. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Remembrance

Let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. -George Eliot

Spending Your Life

The trouble is, if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. -Peter Shaffer

Hard To Hate

It's hard to hate someone once you understand them. -Lucy Christopher

Kids Remember

Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. -Jim Henson

Heart

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Past

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. -Kiran Desai

Fear

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. -Jim Morrison

Silence of the Heart

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go. -Elizabeth Gilbert

The Essence

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. -George Orwell

Rich

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. -Rita Rudner

Going Well

Things are going well for me here...I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is? -Vincent van Gogh

Roses On My Table

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman

No Reason

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. -Paulo Coelho

A Better Gardener

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. -Louisa May Alcott

Love

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. -Corinthians

Friday

Music always sounds better on Friday. -Lou Brutus

Enough

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. -G.K. Chesterton

Children

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.” -Marianne Williamson

Cheers

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -Mark Twain

My Pain

I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. -Anaïs Nin