To love reading is to change the hours of boredom with hours of pleasure.

Charles de Montesquieu

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Leo Buscaglia

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander the Great

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Always put your fears behind you and your dreams in front of you. Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic make heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

The great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, small minds talk about people.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Stendhal

The world of reality has its limits. The world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

Charles de Montesquieu

Change the way you see things and the things you see will change.

Wayne Dyer

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, threy are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Ranindranath Tagore

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

I wondered why somebody did not do something. Then I realized that the someone was me.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin  Mays

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

Antony Robbins

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Dale Carnegie

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create in. There are not only those who do not crave enough.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust