"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
(Art: "The Pool", by Stephen Forbes, 2018)
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Art: "Street in Moscow", by Natalia Gontcharova, 1909)
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein
(Art: "Saint Francis and the Birds", by Sir Stanley Spencer, 1935)
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Art: "The Bayberry Bush", by William Merritt Chase, 1895)
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
- Robert Brault
(Art: "Strawberries, Cream, & Sugar", by John F. Francis, 1850)
"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Art: "Autumn - on the Hudson River", by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1860)
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Art: "Pueblo Village", by Andrew Dasburg, c1925)
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
(Art: "California Bank", by David Hockney, 1964)