Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman