70 quotes
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.”
— Ben Zoma
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
— Mark Twain
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
— Seneca
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Justice is not just the absence of oppression it is the presence of opportunity”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Write in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every day is a fresh beginning; listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, and spite of old sorrow and older sinning, and puzzles forecasted and possible pain, take heart with the day and begin again.”
— Susan Coolidge
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
— Mark Manson
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“Spring comes even after the harshest winter.”
— Rumi
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
— Alexander the Great
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
— Richard Wagner
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
— Erica Jong
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
— Alexander Pope
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
— Walter Bagehot
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Unknown
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
— Publilius Syrus
“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
— Socrates
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
— John Calvin
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Gautama Buddha
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
— Cicero
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand Hamilton
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
— Flavia de Luce
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas Edison
“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I am”
— Denis Waitley
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
“The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root. Returning to the root is stillness.”
— Laozi
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
— Hada Bejar
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your own path.”
— Nichiren
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
— Frida Kahlo
“A flower falls, yet it returns to the branch — look, a butterfly!”
— Moritake Arakida
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Every day is a fresh beginning; listen, my soul, to the glad refrain.”
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
— Zig Ziglar
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.”
— Lin Yutang's translation of Chinese proverb
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
— King Solomon
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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