“Have you noticed how the negative voices will always play the loudest?”

          –Joel Osteen

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it–basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

          –Charles Bukowski

“Our life is frittered away by detail…Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!  I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand…Simplify, simplify!”

          –Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

          –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I do not understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”

          –Anne Lamott