Little Things

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
--Leo Buscagalia

Give Love

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
--Morrie Schwartz

Color

"Color, like music, takes a shortcut to our senses and emotions."
--Phillip Ball

Happiness

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. You can spend the day in bed recounting your difficulties or get out of bed and be thankful for the happy memories you have stored away."
--Unknown

Love Life, Not Stuff

"Realize that life, not stuff, is what matters. Objects are just objects — if you lose them, if they get stolen or destroyed … it’s not a big deal. They’re just objects — not your life. Your life is the series of moments that is steaming through your consciousness right now, and how you use those moments and what you fill them with is what truly matters, not what you fill your home with. At the end of this short journey, you’ll look back and remember your experiences, the people you loved and who loved you back, the things you did and didn’t do. Not the stuff you had. "
--Zen Habits

Don't Quit

"The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best."
--Barack Obama

Music

"Music moves us and we know not why; we feel the tears but cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world like music."
--LE Landon

Nonsense

"I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells..."
--Dr. Seuss

Self-Worth

"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside."
--Hugh Macleod

Forgiveness

"If you haven't forgiven yourself of something, how can you forgive others?"
--Dolores Huerta

Lost Loved Ones

"Where do people go when they die?
Somewhere down below or in the sky?
'I can't be sure,' said Granddad, 'but it seems
They simply set up home inside our dreams.'"
--Jeanne Willis Inside our Dreams

Books

"If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book."
--Ursula K Le Guin

Joy

"Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy...why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
--Jack Kerouac

Passion

"If you don't love what you do, you're never gonna be good at it. Life's short. Go have fun."
--Jeffrey Gitomer

People

"We as humans do want to share our lives. And guess what people, it is not about the numbers. We just want to share our lives with people who can add value. Who make us think and laugh. And feel good. People we trust. People just like us."
--Robbin Phillips

Creativity

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
--Ray Bradbury