If your nose is close to the grindstone
And you hold it there long enough
In time you'll say there's no such thing
As brooks that babble and birds that sing
These three will all your world compose
Just you, the stone and your poor old nose
On a two hundred year old stone in a country cemetery
Nothing is worth more than this day.
And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live evert experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
Dorothy Thompson
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood. Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
Alexanda Pope
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
Matthew Arnold
"Grant to me that I may be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure."
Prayer of Socrates
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now....for I shall not pass this way again.
All that you have ever said or done or left undone, is registered for ever in your own nature.
The final test of any religion is not religiousness, but love.
Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them: but it is the petty frictions of our every day life with one another, the jar of business or work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of an ambition, the crossing of our will, the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.
Henry Drummond
Do not isolate yourself. Be among people, and among things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Life is not a holiday, but an education.
"I find it wholesome a greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our own chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him stay where he will.
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert."
Henry David Thoreau.
Joy is not in things: it is in us.
It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements for life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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
Happiness is as butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if just sit down quitely, may alight on you.
Contentment is the philosopher's stone, which turns all it toucheth into gold; the poor man is rich with it, the rich man is poor without it.
Proverb
To be able to find joy in another's joy; that is the secret of happiness.
Money has never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
The great successful people of the world think ahead and creat their mental picture, and go to work materializing that picture in all it's details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit, that a bit, but steadily building ~ steadily building.
Robert Collier
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
OG. Mandingo
The longer I live the more I am convinced that the only thing worth living for and dying for is the privilege of making someone more happy and more useful. No man who ever does anything to lift his fellows ever makes a sacrifice.
Booker T. Washington
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
We can easily manage, if we will only take each day, the burden appointed for it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow to the weight before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe no path is really rough
When you get to Heaven you won't be checked for medals but for scars.
Leave a prayer, a thought or a kind word for a loved one, a friend, a passing stranger, or feel free to ask for a prayer for yourself.