Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Rumi

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness.

Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

August Wilson

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Tom Robbins