You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

Marie Curie

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

John Galsworthy

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Joan Wallach Scott

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Samuel Beckett