Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
He that fears you present will hate you absent.
Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot plague them better.
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. -Woodrow Wilson:.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. -Sir Philip Sidney.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. -Thomas Paine.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.