It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are b...
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. —RUDYARD KIPLING Will
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
British writer G. K. Chesterton’s reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject What’s Wrong with the World? Chesterton’s response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves. And those people who think only of themselves, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, longtime president of Columbia University, said, are hopelessly...
There is only one way to happiness, Epictetus taught the Romans, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, b...
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book The Origin Of Spec...