“If you’re sitting out there now with a nice, neat little outline for the next ten years, you’d better be careful.  Life may have other plans.  Life will present you with unexpected opportunities, and it will be up to you to take a chance, to be bold, to have faith and go for it.” John [...]

“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment.  This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.” Charlotte Joko Beck. 

“I learned . . . that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward.  Life is really a One Way Street.” Agatha Christie

“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable” Joyce Carol Oates

“If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.” Harlan Cleveland.

“Never regret.  If it’s good, it’s wonderful.  If it’s bad, it’s experience.” Victoria Holt.

“One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand–to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.” John Burroughs (1837-1921) Naturalist

“I endeavor . . . to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there is no redress.” Elizabeth Montagu; Writer, Editor,Publisher, and Psychologist. 

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and [...]

“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.” Rita Mae Brown