Debra Smouse O'Connor

"When we have learned valuable lessons about love, we grow to become wiser, more self-controlled and courageous." --Alexandra Stoddard

“I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.” -- Vincent van Gogh

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” -- Maya Angelou

"Live with the questions. They can be answered in the thoughtful things you are naturally inspired to do." -- Alexandra Stoddard

“My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way." -- Virginia Woolf

"It is essential that true joys be experienced, that the sunrise not leave us unmoved..." --May Sarton

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” --Maya Angelou

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” --Henry David Thoreau

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” -- Rumi

It was in the Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived. "And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something, or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh... which it is," he added. "So there you are." ~A.A.Milne

“Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.” -- Madeleine L'Engle

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

“Beauty has its purposes, which, all our lives and at every season, it is our opportunity, and our joy, to divine.”--Mary Oliver

“I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. -- Alexandra Stoddard

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“Beauty, like love, makes us happy, but we have to be keenly receptive to the seduction." -- Alexandra Stoddard

“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted” -- Aesop

Piglet was sitting on the ground blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime, or never. He discovered that it would be never, and tried to remember what 'it' was, hoping it wasn't anything nice. ~A.A.Milne #dandelions

“Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.” -- Steve Maraboli

"If we want to be happy, be compassionate. If we want others to be happy, be compassionate." -- Alexandra Stoddard