“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. Things are happening.” -Joan Rivers

“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door—or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” – Joan Rivers

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -AA Milne

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -Walter Scott

Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. -Paul Dirac

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. -Maya Angelou

My karma ran over your dogma. ~Author Unknown

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself. ~Alfred Sheinwold

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. -Jimmy Carter

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. -Carlo Dossi