“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“You must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.” – Leo Tolstoy

“In the time of your life, live.” – William Saroyan

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.” – Frank A Clark

“Happiness is the butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and softly sits on your shoulder.” – Viktor Frankl

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what might be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“Live to learn, learn to love, and you’ll love to live.” – Matthew Cowley

“Peace may cost as much as war, but it’s a better buy.” – E.C. McKenzie

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison

“The tragedy of the world is that men have given first class loyalty to second class causes, and these causes have betrayed them.” – Lynn Harold Hough

“To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than oneself.” – Will Durant

“When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.” – Bill Lemley

“You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort; who, if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths.” – Sidney Smith

“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Hatred is blind as well as love.” – Thomas Fuller

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” – Hermann Hesse, Demian

“Look around and you’ll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The future does not belong to those who are content with today…rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.” – Robert Kennedy

“The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.” – Franklin S Richards

“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” – Confucius

“When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do…doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don’t want to do, they won’t.” – James Gould Cozzens

“You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. and it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.” – Joseph Smith

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Existence will thereby become harder for him in every respect than it would be if he lived for himself. But at the same time it will be richer, more beautiful, and happier. It will become, instead of mere living, a real experience of Life.” – Albert Schweitzer

“He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well, is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.” –

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and what he could be.” – Goethe

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Elmer G Leterman

“Pleasure is, and just remain, a side effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is a goal in itself.” – Viktor Frankl

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo

“The work does not come out of inspiration. Inspiration comes out of the work.” – Dr. Ida P Rolf

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When your joy is sincere you are a smile-millionaire, a genuine smile distributes the cosmic currents – prana – to every body cell.” – Parmahansa Yoginanda

“You’re here for only a short visit, so don’t hurry, don’t worry, and be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” – Elton Trueblood

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick