Most people think their experiences show them who they are, not what they have chosen. They do not know they have the ability to shape their experiences like a potter shapes clay. You are the artist and you are also the art that is being created. You choose the colours, where to add and remove clay, and you determine whether the art will be dark and depressing or light and joyful. There is no limit to your creative capacity. Gary Zukav
The reality you live in is partially up to you. The fantasy you live in is entirely up to you. Najwa Zebian
L'arbre est devant la fenêtre du salon. Je l'interroge chaque matin: Quoi de neuf aujourd'hui? La réponse vient sans tarder, donnée par des centaines de feuilles: Tout. Christian Bobin
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett
As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. Yasunari Kawabata
Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. Natalie Angier
Carpe diem' doesn't mean seize the day – it means something gentler and more sensible. 'Carpe diem' means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem". (...) What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things – so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant--pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it. That's not the kind of man that Horace was. Nicholson Baker
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. Vera Brittain
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time. Deepak Chopra
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. William Makepeace Thackeray
