Thought of the Moment

A child learns gratitude by not getting everything she wants. A child learns patience by waiting. A child learns generosity by sharing and giving. A child learns self-control by having to control herself. And above all, she learns contentment by not being trained to always need more and faster. Read more

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- The 14th Dalai Lama Read more

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. Read more

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

- Robert Louis Stevenson Read more

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

- Henry David Thoreau Read more

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

- Jonathan Safran Foer Read more

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone Read more

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself.

- Joyce Maynard Read more

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Read more

People see what you feel about yourself. Read more