“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -- Buddha

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” —Jane Howard

“The best way out is always through.” Robert Frost

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” St. Francis of Assisi

“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“Leave the road, take the trails.” Pythagoras

“Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.” Vincent van Gogh

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." Henri Nouwen

This spring has been one of many little griefs.

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” Ashley Montagu

“He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.” Whoopi Goldberg

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” Maxime Lagacé