the simple things are also the most extraordinary things

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as

if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. 

– Alan Watts

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a word filled with anger,

we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream.

And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

– Michael Jackson

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point

where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

– Ram Dass

I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make,

I want to see a scar, failure, disorder, distortion.

Yohji Yamamoto

Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing

 the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.

 – Sarah Kay

I am, and always will be, the optimist.

The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

– Dr. Who

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

 ― Paulo Coelho

You’re a gift, one I’ll always treasure.

 You’re a dream I never want to wake up from.

 You open my eyes to things I’ll never really see.

You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.

Be safe. Be smart. Stay you.

— Ellen Hopkins

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower