Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

The Four Rules of Life:1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Joan Borysenko

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Thomas Fuller

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Barry Deutsch

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

William Hazlitt

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

Rick Perry

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

Dylan McDermott

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

Jay Woodman

Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Orson Scott Card, Speaker For Th