“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. They way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”

-         Margaret Young

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

-         Zora Neale Hurston

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

-         Helen Keller

“Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you…If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.”

-         Emmet Fox

“My business is not to remake myself,

But make the absolute best of what God made.”

-         Robert Browning

“Anybody can observe the Sabbath but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”

-         Alice Walker

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

- Ursula K. LeGuin