Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

There ain't no future in the past.