“Fish!”

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of each success or failure is of less account. – John Gardner.

There are those people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

There is something about you that you may not even know about yourself. You have within you more resources of energy than have ever been tapped, more talent than has ever been exploited, more strength than has ever been tested, and more to give than you have ever given.

Mary Jane looked down at her attitude menu. It had two sides. On one side was a frowning face surrounded by words like angry, disinterested, and bitter. On the other side was a smiling face with words like energetic, caring, vital, supportive and creative. At the top it said: THE CHOICE IS YOURS.