Baking, camping, comedy shows, concerts, cooking, farmers markets, festivals, fishing, gardening, hanging out with friends, helping people, listening to books, listening to music, movies, painting, swimming, traveling, tv shows, writing poetry

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." Niccolò Machiavelli

Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Andy Dufresne: "There are places in the world that aren't made out of stone. There's something inside they can't touch."

Ellis "Red" Redding: "What are you talking about?"

Andy Dufresne: "Hope."

"Hope is a dangerous thing. Drive a man insane.-Ellis "Red" Redding

"Remember Red: Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies." Andy Dufresne