“At any rate, I remain cheerful — if only through some inner necessity. Cheerfulness will prevail. I believe it in my bones… While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he was sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”
—H. G. Wells, Apropos of Dolores, 1938
Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.
“We are all, in the course of a lifetime, a half dozen different people, bound together by memories of the same childhood.”
—Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Some days we can only hope
that Death has called in sick.
There are two sides to every story. Even my own story. Probably every story I’ve ever told myself.
If you let go of the things you’re addicted to, your pains will let go of you.
“I have been awfully busy… And it tires me so that generally
—Lewis Carroll, 1879
“The knowledge of my years is ever with me, a sort of binding torment, like an armhole that is
—Kate Trimble Sharber, At the Age of Eve, 1911
I like people who don’t take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.
I still believe in some faraway place where it’s all okay.
I’m a dandelion puff in a harsh wind.
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Dad never was a money-maker, and, as nearly as I can make out, he never wanted to be. He worked mighty hard when he worked, but his real job was living.”
—Clarence Budington Kelland, 1927
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’”
—Harmon Killebrew, 1984
Sometimes prayers collide and miracles are born.