Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

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You can have it all. Just not all at once. ― Oprah Winfrey

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. — Emily Dickinson

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Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality. ― Roy T. Bennett

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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ― David Levithan

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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Life is short and so am I. _ Matt Serra

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come. — Ellen DeGeneres

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