“Those who bring sunshine
         into the lives of others cannot
             keep it from themselves.”

                     —James Barrie

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

—Buddha

“Instead of training children to meet the expectations of adults, we should be training adults to meet the psychological, emotional, and development needs of children.”

                   —Zoe Tolman

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

                       “Children are the living messages 
                       we send to a time we will not see.”

                                      —John F. Kennedy

“We make our way through everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

       “For everything you have missed, 
        you have gained something else,
            and for everything you gain, 
              you lose something else.”

              —Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

—Walt Disney

   "Life is a great big canvas, 
    and you should throw all the paint 
    on it you can."

    —Danny Kaye

"Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful, or rich will make you happy.”

—Shawn Achor

"Within moments of logging on to social media, we have instant access to others’ accomplishments, vacations, job promotions, home upgrades, and culinary creations. It’s hard to be happy if we constantly concern ourselves with how we measure up to those around us.

Gratitude has the opposite effect of social comparison — it redirects our attention to the many wonderful things we already have in our lives that we have likely taken for granted.”

—Timothy Bono, Ph.D., Psychology Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

    “The art of being happy lies in
the power of extracting happiness 
          from common things”.

         —Henry Ward Beecher