A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

Bob Marley

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

The superior man makes demands on himself; the inferior man makes demands on others.

Confucius

Teach your children poetry. It opens the mind, gives grace to wisdom and makes the heroism inheritance.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Benjamin Franklin

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

Bob Proctor

 If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Some of the greatest achievements in the world have been accomplished by people who were not smart enough to realize that it was infeasible.

Doug Larson

The world is very big and full of magnificent places which it would take more than a thousand lives to visit.

Arthur Rimbaud

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

Be nice to those you meet on the way up because you will meet them on the way down.

Wilson Mizner

Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existance.

Aristotle

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Voltaire

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

St. Thomas Aquinas

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Brian Tracy