The Contentment of Soul

Find something you love to do and immerse yourself in it. Consciously savor a favorite piece of music. Consciously enjoy a walk in nature. Really experience your breathing and the pounding of your heart as you exercise. Really be present to your partner, your kids, your pet or another, and you will know the contentment of soul.—John & Patrice Robson

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To Look Backward

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."--Margaret Fairless Barber

Hieroglyphics of Angels

"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."--Lydia M. Child

All My Life's a Circle

"All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown
Moon rolls through the night-time till the daybreak comes around
All my life's a circle -- I can't tell you why
Seasons spinning round again, the years keep rolling by."—Harry Chapin

Real Beauty

Real beauty isn't about symmetry or weight or makeup; it's about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.--Valerie Monroe

By a Simple Smile

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."--Goldie Hawn

The More You Understand

"There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace."--Anne Rice

Excellent Schoolmasters

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.--John Lubbock