Courage

Meaningful Quotes

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. 

Barbara Bush

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. 

Betty Smith

When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself. 

Confucius 

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. 

Ralph Blum

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.” 

Muhammad Ali

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. 

Groucho Marx

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. 

Dalai Lama

Happiness To The Wise

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns, Intimate Connections

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination;>happiness; but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

Soothing Quotes

I received few inspirational quotes from a dear friend recently. Here are two of them for us to ponder: