"The trick is not how much pain you feel—but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses." Erica Jong

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. Montaigne - French Renaissance Writer

"If you want others to be happy,      practice compassion.         If you want to be happy,            practice compassion.” The Dalai Lama