When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.—Tecumseh
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.—Paul Bloom
We have to see that we’re a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.—Michael Moore
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.—Helen Keller
You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place.
—Maya Angelou
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.—Simone Weil
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.—Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
When I’m too big to hold, I’ll hold you instead.—Ashlyn, age 5
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.—Toni Morrison
