We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
-Paulo Coelho
The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others… All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.