70 quotes
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Unknown
“Write in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Every day is a fresh beginning; listen, my soul, to the glad refrain.”
— Susan Coolidge
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
— Richard Wagner
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
— King Solomon
“The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root. Returning to the root is stillness.”
— Laozi
“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, and spite of old sorrow and older sinning, and puzzles forecasted and possible pain, take heart with the day and begin again.”
“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
“Spring comes even after the harshest winter.”
— Rumi
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“Justice is not just the absence of oppression it is the presence of opportunity”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
— Frida Kahlo
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
— Zig Ziglar
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
— Erica Jong
“The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand Hamilton
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“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.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Gautama Buddha
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas Edison
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
— Mark Manson
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
— Alexander Pope
“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
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
— Socrates
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I am”
— Denis Waitley
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
— Walter Bagehot
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
— Cicero
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.”
— Ben Zoma
“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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
— Mark Twain
“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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
— John Calvin
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
— Publilius Syrus
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your own path.”
— Nichiren
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
— Alexander the Great
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
— Hada Bejar
“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
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