“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” – Edith Wharton

“Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.” – Ernest Hemingway

“In mindfulness, one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.” – Krista Tippett

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather, it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.” – Erich Fromm

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde