Kenneth Grahame: "The clever men at Oxford know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad."

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.

Happiness comes from within and is found in the present moment by making peace with the past and looking forward to the future.

Take the time to really attend to a meal, a good book, a piece of music, or a sunrise. The point is to be fully present, to not be swept up into the distraction of a thousand voices, but to learn how to simply and fully attend to one. Then, when one enters enters back into the noisy world we live in, even the million colors together are more vibrant because you have learned to better see color in its essence. To truly see is to find hope. - The Crowd, The Critic and The Muse, M. Gungor.