Pain

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."  - C.S. Lewis -

Flow

"Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."  - C.S. Lewis -

Heaven

"Every spirit builds itself a house,

and beyond its house a world,

and beyond its world a heaven."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Destiny

"Watch your thoughts; they become words

Watch your words; they become actions

Watch your actions; they become habits

Watch your habits; they become character

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny"  - Frank Outlaw -

Suffering

"I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering."  - C. S. Lewis -

Underestimate

"If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you."  - Bob Dylan -

Happiness

"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them."  - Robert R. Updegraff -

Counts

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."  - Albert Einstein -

Laugh

"Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one."  - Frederick Buechner -

Innovation

"If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure til you come up with something that works."  - Seth Godin -

Light

"The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side."  - G.K. Chesterton -

Kind

"What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind."  - Cleveland Amory -

Purpose

"The primary purpose of life is in being in the 'NOW'".  - Eckhart Tolle -

Teacher

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." - Nikos Kazantzakis -

Difference

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."  - William James -

Friends

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  - Martin Luther King Jr. -

Failure

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."  - Henry Ford -

Alone

"…good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone."  - John Taylor Gatto -

Freedom

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."  - Albert Einstein -

Play

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."  - Joseph Chilton Pearce -