shadows...

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. 

When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.  

Because where there is much light, the shadow is deep.

happiness

If you want to be happy, be.  Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  


Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.  

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.  So, start every day with a smile and get it over with!


When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

oh.. life!

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.  ~Stacy


Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
~Terri Guillemets


[L]ife is a journey and not a destination... the heart must be set upon those matters of character which are eternal and not upon those matters of sensation which pass away. ~Lynn H. Hough


Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.  ~James Gibbons Huneker