“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

“The sun after the rain is much beautiful than the sun before the rain.” Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Stop every now and then. Just stop and enjoy. Take a deep breath. Relax and take in the abundance of life." Anonymous

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

“A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!” David Beard

This spring has been one of many little griefs.

Enough already, cabin fever has set in.

“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