– Mark Nepo
My number one aim most days is just to smile on it all: on the happy, friendly people and the mean and ornery people too; on the days that are easy and dreamy and full of laughter as well as those that are so full of problems that my head is spinning and my body is weary; on full and empty wallets and light and heavy hearts; on gains and losses, joys and sorrows, sunshine and rain. I want to go beyond being at peace with life: I want to fall in love with it all. Sometimes, just consciously recognizing how I ache to love life in all of its messy glory is enough to fill me with a sense of awe that any of this is possible in the first place.