Life

Don't count the days. Make the days count.
-Muhammed Ali

Don't miss the magic of the day by focusing on what's to come.
-Barbara Morina

How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard

Maybe the worst thing in the world is to believe that today is exactly like yesterday.
Gladys Hunt

The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
-unknown

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain

Learning

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
-Greek proverb


Reading develops the taste buds of the mind as children learn to savor what is seen, heard, and experienced and fit those into some kind of worthwhile framework.
-Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart

I have learned that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened, and what the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
-James Stephen, Crock of Gold

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
-Pablo Picasso

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
-Julius Lester