Sunday

 "When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!"

--Rabbi Harold Kushner

 To me nothing in the world is as precious as

a genuine smile, especially from a child.

Rumi

 A life without love isn’t a life.

Rumi

 "It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom."

—Alice Walker, an American author

 "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." -- Henry Ward Beecher

 “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say 

your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to 

overcome evil and welcome good.”

~ Maya Angelou

“At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough. 

You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it.

It is enough.”

~ Toni Morrison 

 “Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”

~ Karen Armstrong

 "In the end, just three things matter: 

How well we have lived. 

How well we have loved. 

How well we have learned to let go."

~Jack Kornfield