Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

... to be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy.

Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

There is always a gift in any challenge.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.

Dear 2016, If I has any defeats in your term, I am glad they were on my terms!Best, The Defeated Winner

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

In the face of adversity, beautiful things emerge

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.