Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away