Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Gail Sheehy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Robert Frost

My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.

from "Two Tramps in Mudtime"

Ecclesiastes

Enjoy life with the one whom you love all the days of your life. Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your might. And eat your bread with gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart, because your God has already approved what you do.

9:7-10 adapted

Arthur Graham

Each of us is an artist

whose task it is to shape life

Into some semblance of the pattern

of our dreams.

The making is not of the self alone

but of shared tomorrows

And times we shall never see.

So let us be about our task.

The materials are very precious

and perishable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

from Gift from the Sea

Robert Ingersoll

No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still.