"I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." - J.R.R. Tolkien

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” - Lao Tzu

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl

"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for the person who has the vision to recognize it."  —Henry Miller

"Intuition doesn't speak in words...it speaks in VIBRATION. It is up to us to translate those vibrations into words and then follow their subtle urgings. Be quiet and FEEL the energy pulsing up from your heart. Express out loud what you are feeling. IF you are on track you will experience a deep resonance throughout your entire being. It feels true.To start simply put your hand on your heart and say "MY spirit says, ......" and see what tumbles out. Keep on doing this until you feel satisfied. TRUST YOUR VIBES and you will stay the course of your authentic self." ~ Sonia Choquette

"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not." - Marcus Aurelius

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." - Lionel Hampton

"I cant go back to yesterday- because I was a different person then" - Lewis Carroll

"The sound came from our souls and merely borrowed our mortal bodies as a vehicle for release. For even without playing, the music was. It existed. It was eternal, hanging in the cosmos, just waiting to be set free." - Nancy Moser

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star - Carl Sagan

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." — Mark Twain