o Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.Seneca
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Aurelius, Marcus
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Camus, Albert
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you?James, Henry
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Wharton, Edith
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.Stoddard, Alexandra
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.Blake, William
The only joy in the world is to begin.Pavese, Cesare
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.Bradley, Amanda
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Dickinson, Emily
It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.Jefferies, Richard
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be
no greater happiness than this.Nishida, Kitaro
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the momentO'Keefe, Georgia
The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.Chesterton G. K.
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.Cantor, Eddie
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.Stendhal
Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum.Tov, Baal Shem
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Erasmus
You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future.
Anonymous
I want to sing like the birds sing not worrying about who hears or what they think.Rumi
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.Meir, Golda
The quieter you become the more you can hear.Dass, Baba Ram
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.Shakespeare, William
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.Lubbock, Sir J.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.Penn, William
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.Maudsley, Henry
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Lincoln, Abraham
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.Colao, Flora
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is
the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Grant, Amy
When you delight in the game, the effort seems unimportant.Anonymous
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Gibran, Kahlil
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.Blake, William
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Kierkegaard, Soren
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.Parton, Dolly
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.Andrus, Ethel Perry
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.Anonymous
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong.... Why not try and see positive things,
to just touch those things and make them bloom.
Hanh, Thich Nhat
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.Gibran, Kahlil
Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Gibran, Kahlil
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a matter of traveling.
Runbeck, Margaret
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.Openhelm, James
Laughter is the shortest distance between two peopleBorge, Victor
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Roosvelt, Eleanor
Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.Barrymore, John
The best remedy for anger is delay.Young , Brigham
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.Dickinson, Emily
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Richter
We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.
Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
Leo Rosten
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten
Make the most of yourself that is all there is to youEmerson, Ralph Waldo
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Dillard, Anne
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselvesMatthews, Caitlin
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.Miller, Henry
The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.Martha Washington
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."Agatha Christie
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.Law, William
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Addison, Joseph
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Addison, Joseph
Remember this very little is needed to make a happy life.Aurelius, Marcus
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.Anonymous
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.Ingersoll, Robert
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
J. Brotherton
A smile is curve that sets everything straight.Anonymous
The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget itAeschylus
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.Anonymous
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."Meister Eckhart
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Kennedy
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.Barrymore, Ethel
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."Seneca
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."Emily Dickenson
"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."Anonymous
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."Will Durant
"Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything."Rumi
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.Morgenstern, Christion
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.O'Malley, Austin
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.Elliot, Henry
The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.Twain, Mark
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.Anonymous
Life is too important to take seriously.Wilde, Oscar
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Rudnick, Paul
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought ,
and attended to my answer.Thoreau, Henry David
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to beLincoln, Abraham