There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude,

a quiet joy.

Ralph H. Brown

We can only be said to be alive in those

moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.

You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not

enchantment then where is it to be found?"

~J. B. Priestley

" On motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels..."

Charles Dickens

" I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. so I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."

N. Hawthorne

" Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. "

-Mark Twain