The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
( via Carlos Castaneda )

Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes me come alive? and go do it. Because what the world needs is people that have come alive.
( via Howard Thurman )

He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
( via Rafael Sabatini’s character Scaramouche)