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