There really always is something to celebrate, as Kathryn Petras truly learned when undergoing treatment for brea cancer.

And that was the genesis of Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day -a book with a glass-half-full outlook. Buil Kathryn & Ross Petras’s successful series of quotation books, it’s the perfect gift for the good times-(birthday, graduation, Mother’s Day, a new job) and even the not-so-good times-(recovering from an illness, coping with a loss, or bouncing back from a difficult time). Here are quotations that tap into a wellspring of joy, inspirational ideas on gratitude, hope, love. and laughter. Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day shares the words and thoughts from a wide range of people-including George C Judy Blume, Frida Kahlo, Marcus Aurelius, Louis Armstrong, Charles Bukowski, Michael J. Fox, Maya Angelou, J Kerouac, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol, Anne Frank, Johnny Depp, Anthony Bourdain, Goethe (the source of the quote)… and many, many more.