Happiness is not something to be found somewhere, it is a state of mind. – Charles Steves
Happiness is easy. It is letting go of unhappiness that is hard. – Hugh Prather
Had we ourselves no faults, we should find less pleasure discovering them in others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. – Andre Maurois
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. – T W Higginson
God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. we are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. – Rev Billy Graham
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. – J G Holland
God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation. – Allen Stockdale
Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon. – Mark Twain
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. – Admiral Richard Bird
Facts, as such, never settled anything. They are working tools only. It is the implications that can be drawn from the facts that count, and to evaluate these requires wisdom and judgment that are unrelated to the computer approach to life. – Clarence B Randall
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
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
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. – Frank A Clark
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices-just recognize them. – Benjamin Disraeli
Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong, quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. – Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. – Norman Vincent Peale
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage races fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. – Thomas Carlyle
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. – Michael O’Brien
Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the Power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. – Shearson/Lehman Bros.
Columbus set out to find a passage to the Indies and failed; he found America instead. Ponce de Leon looked for the fountain of youth and found Florida. The greatest explorers seem to find something other than what they are looking for.
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks. – Charles Dickens
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
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
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
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. – Margaret Thatcher
Become a possibilitarian. no matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities-always see them, for they’re always there. – Norman Vincent Peale
Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence. – Lord Byron
”All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself.” – Shantideva
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash
“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.” – Laurence Housman
A modest man often seems conceited because he is delighted with what he has done, thinking is better than anything of which he believed himself capable, whereas the conceited man is inclined to express dissatisfaction with his performances, thinking them unworthy of his genius. – Hesketh Pearson
A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes