"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

— William James

T"here ain't no cloud so thick that the sun ain't shinin' on t'other side."

--Rattlesnake,
an 1870s mountain man

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that"s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth"

— Sarah Ban Breathnach"

"We've all lead raucous lives, / some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important...The voyage
into the interior is all that matters"

-- Charles Wright

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world is quite enough."

Nancy Spain, British Broadcaster and Journalist

"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well and yet everything happens only a certain number of times - and a very small number really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your life that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise, perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems so limitless…"

Paul Bowles 1910-1999
American Writer and Composer

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."

— Florence Scovel Shinn

"Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don"t miss it."

— Leo Buscaglia