Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'
How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.
I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
