Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].

Life is something like a doctor's prescription: taken alone, and the ingredients might kill you; but properly blended, they bring healing.

To say what you mean and mean what you say but it doesn't always compliment the expectations of others or what they mean when they say it.

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of