There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.


David O. McKay

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

L. A. Rouchefolicauld

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

Sydney J. Harris

Ideas, as distinguished from events,
are never unprecedented.


Hannah Arendt

A mind is like a canvas: The more open your mind, The more colors you can use.

Ehren Goossens

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Happiness is not a station you arrive at,
but a manner of travelling.


Margaret B. Runbeck

It is not length of life, but depth of life.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dr. Dale Turner

It is in your moments of decision
that your destiny is shaped.


Anthony Robbins

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

Gary Collins

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Aristotle

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

Helen Keller

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again, this is the brave and happy life.

J. E. Buchrose

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 13:34

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.

Monroe Forester

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

Walter Anderson

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.


Samuel Johnson