One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. 

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. 

Regina Brett

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. 

Anais Nin

 If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. 

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.