I'd love to find out who my family is, I'd love to know where the artists are around here, I'd love to know anyone who would love to know me, I'd love to shake the hand of someone who doesn't know they are going to change the world someday, I wish I could have had the opportunity to meet Hitchcock, C.S. Lewis, Toklien, Jane Austin, any of the original Impressionist artists, I'd love to meet the future me and see if there is any damage control that needs to be doneQuit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop criticizing and start creating. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Consider the lilacs. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshipping what's right with God. Burn sinful bridges. Laugh at yourself. Keep making mistakes. Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks. Don't try to be who you're not. Be yourself. Quit holding out. Quit holding back. Quit running away. And remember: if God is for us who can be against us?And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham LincolnThere's nothing as beautiful as the happiness of a childThe true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. - Madame De MaintenonOne of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. - Dick GregoryThe secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. - AnonymousWho is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot. - Indian ProverbWhile we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment. - Hasidic ProverbThe foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. - James OppenheimThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl JungTo love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David ViscottNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. - Alan Watts