"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it." -Anne “Ninon” de L’Enclos.

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

John Wooden

"On days when life is difficult and I feel overwhelmed, as I do fairly often, it helps to remember in my prayers that all God requires of me is to trust Him and be His friend. I find I can do that."

Bruce Larson

"I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself."

Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

"What seems too difficult for us is a sure sign that it belongs to God."

Marie DePree

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...We need silence to be able to touch souls."

Mother Teresa

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard

"A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the
upcoming day into proper perspective."

Janette Oke

"To love another person is to help them love God."

Søren Kierkegaard

"When you tug at a single thing in nature, you find it attached to the rest of the world."

John Muir

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

Jane Austen

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

Charles Dickens

“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,

Arrives the snow."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning."

Thomas Aquinas

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Brontë

“Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee.”

Stephanie Piro

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ”

Wallace Stevens

"In the summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams