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  • #1
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #2
    Dawna Markova
    “I don’t think anyone “finds” joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult”
    Dawna Markova

  • #3
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #4
    Barbara  Ross
    “Try as often as you can to give tribute to your friends, to stay in contact, to be at their momentous occasions. Drive across the country and go into debt to go to their weddings, fly across the country and be with them when their parents pass away. You cannot make any new old friends.”
    Barbara Ross, Fogged Inn

  • #5
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #6
    George Eliot
    “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
    George Eliot

  • #7
    T.F. Hodge
    “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”
    T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

  • #8
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #9
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    Rumi

  • #11
    Karen E. Quinones Miller
    “When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
    Karen E. Quinones Miller

  • #12
    Victoria Moran
    “If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.”
    Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

  • #13
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #14
    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
    Paulo Coelho, Aleph



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