The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. — Epictetus

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We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all. – Joanna Gaines

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Do we need to wait until the next life to experience true happiness? Of course not; we can experience it now. By making that choice to be happy and optimistic, we can have a little bit of Heaven on Earth. ― Lindsey Rietzsch

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

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Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. ― Thomas L. Masson

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Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. — Confucius

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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

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