"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 creates a vision for tomorrow."
Melody BeattieImage: Cottage Window by Back.Yard.Photo.
"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."
Helen Gurley Brown
"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together."
Elizabeth Taylor
"I turned silences and night into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still."
Arthur RimbaudImage: Night Walk No. 1, The Grand Canal by Colin Homes.
"I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned eighteen. I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person."
Chelsea Clinton
"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard CohenImage: Pink Flower by First Light Photography.
"I remember sitting in my ghetto, beat up Honda Prelude, and putting on that lipstick in the rear view mirror and being like 'Uh huh. I like that. That's the shit right there.' I never stopped after that."
Gwen Stefani, on red lipstick.
"Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet."
Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk"
Pat ConroyImage: Charleston, South Carolina Alley by Florida Naturally.
"[My Guru] says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that maybe will descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it...."
Elizabeth GilbertImage: The Art of Happiness by Sherman Photography.
"There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself."
Gilda Radner
