I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
- Alice Walker
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
Gandhi
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark Twain
I am much more independent than I originally thought, and much more capable when I am alone then what I thought I would be.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
A collection of happy thoughts and things that I like.
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