The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

Out of clutter, find simplicity, from discord, find harmony, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
- Barbara de Angelis

Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.
-Oscar Wilde.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
- Frederick Buechner

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
- Leo C. Rosten

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Virginia Woolf

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
- Roy H. Williams

‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’
Howard Thurman

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan