Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth,
for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:
it is the time for home.
:: Edith Sitwell

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you...
In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other;
only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches
when you can savor belonging to yourself.
:: Ruth Stout

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble,
you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
:: Edgar Watson Howe

Aging is not 'lost youth'
but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
:: Betty Friedan

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for,
even stupid things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator.
You start to realize how rich you are.
:: Jim Carrey

When those counter people ask you if you want to super-size,
tell them you are happy the way you are!
:: Tim Lane

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.
:: Charles Swindoll

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
:: James Allen

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking.
We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still.
We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory.
We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
:: James Carroll