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LIFE 

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.” ~  Georg Hegel

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Gandhi

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.” ~ Albert Camus

“Growth is the only evidence of life.” ~ John Henry Newman

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller

“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” ~ Emily Dickinson

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” ~ Euripides

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” ~ George Sand

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is trying things to see if they work.” ~ Ray Bradbury

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” ~ Grandma Moses

“It's a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it's a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.” ~ Jordan B. Peterson

“The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
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"The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ~ Thomas La Mance

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ E. M. Forster

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”  ~ Joseph Campbell

“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.” ~ Swami Sivananda

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.” ~ Osho

“Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.” ~ Mary Mapes Dodge

“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” ~ Seneca

“May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” ~ John Wooden

“Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.” ~ Sir Francis Bacon

“The time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long.” ~ William Shakespeare

“What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.” ~ Socrates

“From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.” ~ Jean Rousseau

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.” ~ Aristotle

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.” ~ William Hazlitt

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” ~ Rita Mae Brown

“It has always been difficult for man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so.” ~ Havelock Ellis

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen

“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.” ~ Nicolas Chamfort

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by the man of mature years?” ~ Alfred de Vigny

“Do not regret growing older… it is a privilege denied to many.” ~ Mark Twain

“I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.” ~ Albert Einstein 

“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” ~ Charles Lindbergh

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” ~ Tom Bodett

“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.” ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 

“Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ~ Marie Curie

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” ~ Frank Sinatra

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ~ John Lennon

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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LOVE

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Let all that you do be done in love.” ~ Corinthians 16:14

“Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.” ~ Anne Truitt 

“Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“Love is cure. Love is power. Love is the magic of changes. Love is the mirror of divine beauty.” ~ Rumi

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” ~ Jean Anouilh

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” ~ Katharine Hepburn

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato

“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still… I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.” ~ Emily Dickinson

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.” ~ Song of Solomon 8:7

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” ~ Theodore Roethke

“Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.” ~ Gandhi

“Where there is love there is pain.” ~ Spanish Proverb

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” ~ Sophocles

“Love dies only when growth stops.” ~ Pearl S. Buck

“Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.” ~ French Proverb

“Love knows hidden paths.” ~ German Proverb

“Love is an excuse for its own faults.” ~ Italian Proverb

“Love is sweet, but tastes best with bread.” ~ Yiddish Proverb

“The greatest love is a mother’s; then comes a dog’s; then comes a sweetheart’s.” ~ Polish Proverb

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.” ~ John 4:18
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi

“That's what real love amounts to — letting a person be what they really are. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.” ~ Jim Morrison

“Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” ~ Erich Fromm

“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“The supreme happiness in life is the connection that we are loved.” ~ Victor Hugo

“If you’d be loved, be worthy to be loved.” ~ Ovid

“We live in the world when we love it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~ Lord Tennyson

“A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.” ~ Rumi

“No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Since love grows with you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” ~ Saint Augustine

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

“The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes man’s strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life’s purpose.” ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Walk beside me that we may be as one.” ~  Ute Native American Proverb​

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HAPPINESS

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama

“Happiness starts with you. Not with your relationships, not with your job, not with your money… but with you.” ~ Mandy Hale

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley 

“Happiness is your birthright. Live it!” ~ Yogi Bhajan

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition, and not our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.” ~ Martha Washington

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.” ~ Publilius Syrus

“We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.” ~ Francois La Rochefoucauld

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars.” ~ Dale Carnegie

“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

“Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Walt Whitman

“He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.” ~ Proverbs 15:15

“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be other wise.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“I am happy and content because I think I am.” ~ Alain-Rene Lesage

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam

“I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?” ~ George Gissing

“It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.” ~ Don Marquis

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ~ Robert Frost

“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” ~ Maxim Gorky

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.” ~ John Berry

“He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sunrise.” ~ William Blake

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” ~ Erich Hoffer

“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any conditions.” ~ Arthur Rubinstein

“Happiness depends, as Nature sows, less on exterior things than most suppose.” ~ William Cowper

“Indeed man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” ~ St. Augustine

“Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.” ~ Cyril Connolly

“A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.” ~ Samuel Johnson

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.” ~ President Thomas Jefferson

“Modern man’s happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.” ~ Erich Fromm

“When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop windows.” ~ Tristan Bernard

“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.” ~ Epicurus

“Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering - from positive evil.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“One moment may with bliss repay unnumbered hours of pain.” ~ Thomas Campbell

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.” ~ Walt Whitman

“What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. That’s how it is today, that’s how it’ll be forever.” ~ Bertolt Brecht

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“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 

“Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blest.” ~ Seneca

“It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.” ~ Sophocles

“Eden is that old-fashioned House we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away.” ~ Emily Dickinson

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” ~ George Sand

“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.” ~ Frederick Delius

“Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” ~ Peter Deunov

“This Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” ~ Rumi

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HOPE

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” ~ Tertullian 

“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.” ~ Pliny the Elder

“Hope is a passion for the possible.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

“When there’s life there’s hope.” ~ Cicero

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.” ~ Martin Luther

“He who has hope has everything.” ~ Arabian Proverb

“He fishes on who catches one.” ~ French Proverb

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.” ~  Friedrich Nietzsche

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” ~ Samuel Johnson

“What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” ~ Thomas Merton

“No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” ~ Dalai Lama 

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.” ~ Albert Camus

“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.” ~ William Hazlitt

“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” ~ Proverbs 13:12

“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” ~ Johann von Goethe

“Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary.” ~ John O'Connell

“Hope is the last thing ever lost.” ~ Italian proverb 

“We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.” ~ Manel Loureiro

“Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.” ~ Billy Graham

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” ~ Desmond Tutu

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.” ~ Samuel Johnson

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.” ~ Alexander Pope

“Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.” ~ Pindar

“Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, — ‘Wait and hope.’” ~ Alexandre Dumas

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier’…” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” ~ Emily Dickinson

“Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its master’s indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.” ~ Oscar Wilde 

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." ~ Helen Keller

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.” ~ Kālidāsa

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." ~ Charlotte Bronte 

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” ~ John Lennon

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DREAMS

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” ~ Carl Sandburg

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Don’t dream your life… but live your dream.” ~ Mark Twain

“You’ve got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.” ~ Elvis Presley

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?'” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?” ~ Oscar Hammerstein

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” ~ T. E. Lawrence

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” ~ Douglas H. Everett

“Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when you don't sleep before fulfilling them.” ~ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” ~ Steven Spielberg

“Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed... living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!” ~ Nathan Parks

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ~ Jesse Owens

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

“He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.” ~ Benjamin Franklin 

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.” ~ Friedrich Schiller

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” ~ John Barrymore

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. For broken dreams, the cure is dream again; and deeper.” ~ C. S. Lewis

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowling. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!” ~ Mark Twain

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” ~ Edgar Cayce

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” ~ President Thomas Jefferson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I dwell in possibility.” ~ Emily Dickinson

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” ~ Amy Tan

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

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PEACE

“Peace is liberty in tranquility.” ~ Cicero

"Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." ~ John Milton

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

“Peace is the happy natural state of man, war is corruption and disgrace.” ~ James Thomson

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations... entangling alliances with none.” ~ President Thomas Jefferson

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." ~ Albert Einstein

“Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” ~ Mother Teresa

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ~ Gandhi

“After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.” ~ Herodotus

“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.” ~ Livy

“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.” ~ Baron William Henry Beveridge 

“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.” ~ Thomas a Kempis

“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work?” ~ Senator Dennis Kucinich

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ~ Aristotle

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic." ~ John Dewey

“We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.” ~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” ~ Norman Schwarzkopf 

“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.” ~ Julian Assange

“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.” ~ Max Lerner

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa

“No one can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.” ~ Dutch Proverb

“Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” ~ Dalai Lama

“The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

“Peace is not when everyone agrees. It is when we can respect our disagreements and still play in the sandbox together.” ~ Unknown Author

“Peace begins with a smile.” ~ Mother Teresa

“Peace is the presence of love.” ~ Sri Chinmoy

“Peace is always beautiful.” ~ Walt Whitman

“Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” ~ Unknown Author 

“Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.” ~ Maria Schell

“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.” ~ Milan Kundera

“For all of us want to see our children grow up in a country at peace, and in a world where freedom endures.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.” ~ Thomas a Kempis

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama

“Peace comes from within, do not seek it without.” ~ Buddha

“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” ~ Wayne Dyer

“Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.” ~ Robert Fulghum

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Ego says: 'Once everything falls into place, I will find peace.' Spirit says: 'Find peace and everything will fall into place.” ~ Marianne Williamson

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ~ Eckhart Tolle 

“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

“Peace begins in your heart. Grows in your mind. Manifests through your will and spreads through your action.” ~ Anna Pereira

“If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will be peace in the world.” ~ Confucius

“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.” ~ Nikola Tesla

"All we are saying… is give peace a chance." ~ John Lennon

"There is no path to peace… peace is the path." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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COMPASSION

“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.” ~ Alice Meynell

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.” ~ Russell Simmons

“Compassion is the basis of morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues which moves the world.” ~ Thiruvalluvar 

“Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else.” ~ Dalia Lama

“A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel,

“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.” ~ Thomas Merton

“Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.” ~ Jane Goodall

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” ~ Pema Chödrön

“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike, each has their sufferings.” ~ Buddha

“When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.” ~ Nhat Hanh

“Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.” ~ Yasmin Mogahed

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” ~ Steve Maraboli

“A noble soul will ever exercise compassion even towards those who enjoy injuring others.” ~ Ramayana 6.115

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.” ~ Richard Feynman

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ~ Jack Kornfield

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” ~ Booker T. Washington

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.” ~ Thomas Merton

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.” ~ Eric Hoffer 

“There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.” ~ Robert South

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.’ ~  Albert Schweitzer

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Let a soul radiate in every direction love and compassion, and thoughts of hatred can find nothing to which they can attach themselves.” ~ Annie Besant

“Let thy soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the mourning sun. Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer’s eye. But let each burning human tear drop on thy heart and there remain, nor ever brush it off, until the pain that caused it is removed.” ~ H. P. Blavatsky

8
GOODNESS
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“All men are born good.” ~ Confucius

“'Tis only noble to be good.” ~ Alfred Tennyson

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” "Be not simply good; be good for something.” ~ Henry David Thoreau 

“Live for something! Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with, year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.” ~ Thomas Chalmers

“Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.” ~ John Dryden 

“Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.” ~ Jules Michelet,

“By ceaseless efforts to live the good life we maintain our moral sanity. Not from without, but from within, flow the divine waters that renew the soul.” ~ Felix Adler

“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows." ~ James Freeman Clarke

“They live best, I think, who strive best to become as good as possible: and the pleasantest life is theirs who are conscious that they are growing in goodness.” ~ Xenophon

“A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.” ~ Plautus

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” ~ Thomas Paine 

“Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death.” ~ Socrates

“All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of goodness.” ~ Montaigne

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.” ~ Euripides 

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle.” ~ Buddha

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” ~ William Shakespeare

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 

“Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.” ~ Isaiah 1:17

“One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy—if I may.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli 

“Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.” ~ Michel de Montaigne 

“It is quite natural that in the modern drama the bad is always represented by the most shining talents; the good, the upright, by a grocer's clerk. The spectators find this a matter of course and learn from the play what they knew beforehand, that it is far beneath their dignity to be put in the same class with a grocer's clerk.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” ~ George Orwell 

“There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.” ~ Tennessee Williams 

“How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.” ~ Thomas Carlyle 

“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.” ~ Epictetus 

“We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.” ~ Isaac Barrow 

“What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust that what will come, and must come, shall come well.” ~ Edwin Arnold

“For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good? Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.” ~ Socrates

“Some good we all can do; and if we do all that is in our power, however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and may be as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, and whose good actions are felt and applauded by thousands.” ~ Jane Bowdler

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” ~ Voltaire

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.” ~ John Steinbeck 

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” ~ Miguel de Cervantes

“Is the reward for good anything but good?” ~ Quran 55:60

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.” ~ Sappho

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.” ~ Leo Tolstoy 

“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.” ~ Walter Savage Landor

“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist ... must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not enough to know what is ‘good,’ you must be able to do it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” ~ Dalai Lama 

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” ~ Alexander Pope

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.” ~ Charles Lamb

“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.” ~ William Penn

“Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.” ~ Swami Vivekananda 

“Nor is it a matter for wonder that the good do not appear herded in great thongs. First because specimens of great goodness are rare, secondly, because they avoid the great crowd of the more thoughtless and keep themselves at leisure for the contemplation of what nature has to show.” ~ Philo

“That which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.” ~ James Anthony Froude

“No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.” ~ Samuel Smiles

“We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth; we cannot bring back the perfect day of maturity; we cannot fix the evening rays of age in the shadowy horizon; but we can cherish that goodness which is the sweetness of childhood, the joy of youth, the strength of maturity, the honor of old age, and the bliss of saints.” ~ Henry Giles

“All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.” ~ Philip James Bailey 

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.” ~ Francis Bacon 

“Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.” ~ Horace

“Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.” ~ Cicero

“Do good; Surely, God loves the people who do good deeds”. ~ Quran, 2:195

“Be good my child, and let who will be clever;
Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song.” ~ Charles Kingsley

“Do all the good you can,
To all the people you can,
In all the ways you can,
As long as ever you can.”
Anonymous Tombstone inscription in Shrewsbury, England

9
KINDNESS

"Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.” ~ Sophocles

“Man is born for deeds of kindness.” ~ Marcus Aurelius 

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ Dalai Lama 

“Kindness effects more than severity.” ~ Aesop

“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force.” ~ Publilius Syrus

“The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” ~ The Talmud

“Real kindness seeks no return.” ~ Thiruvalluvar 

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” ~ William Arthur Ward

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.” ~ Robin Williams

"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a harder battle." ~ Plato

“True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.” ~ Andre Code

“The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.” ~ Aristotle

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” ~ Eric Hoffer

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” ~ Jackie Chan

“No act of kindness however small is never wasted.” ~ Aesop

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~ Gandhi

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.” ~ Jack Kerouac

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.” ~ Mother Teresa

“The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.” ~ Lord Byron

“Kindness is language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Mark Twain

“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.” ~ Lao-Tzu

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” ~ Amelia Earhart

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” ~ Confucius

“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.” ~ Miguel de Cervante

“That best portion of a good man’s life… his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ~ William Wordsworth

“Men are only great as they are kind.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.” ~ Jack Kerouac

10
GRATITUDE

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~ Aesop 

“Gratitude is heaven itself.” ~ William Blake 

“Gratitude is the energy of faith.” ~ William Arthur Ward 

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” ~ John Milton 

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~ Thornton Wilder 

“Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.” ~ John Green 

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” ~  William Blake 

“Gratitude plants the seed for abundance.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” ~ Tony Robbins

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” ~ Doris Day

“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.” ~ Bahá'u'lláh  

“We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.” ~ Thomas S. Monson 

“Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.” ~ Jack Canfield 

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch 

“A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale 

“In everything give thanks.” ~ Paul the Apostle 

“Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.” ~ Rumi 

“O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!” ~ William Shakespeare

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.” ~ James E. Faust 

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” ~ Seneca the Younger 

“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.” ~ Izaak Walton 

“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.” ~ Plato

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~ G.K. Chesterton

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.” ~ Alice Walker 

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” ~ Ralph Blum 

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” ~ Karl Barth 

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Robert Brault

“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” ~ David Steindl-Rast 

“The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.” ~ Zig Ziglar 

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality." ~ Alfred Painter

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” ~ Eckhart Tolle 

“Thankfulness is the tune of angels.” ~ Edmund Spenser

“Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.” ~ Marianne Williamson 

“Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” ~ Epicurus 

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch 

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” ~ Willie Nelson

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." ~ Neal A. Maxwell

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” ~ Eric Hoffer 

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them." ~ John F. Kennedy

“Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.” ~ William George Jordan 

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ~ Epictetus 

“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.” ~ Frank A. Clark 

“The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude.” ~ Zig Ziglar  

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens

“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” ~ Epicurus 

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The way to develop the best in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” ~ Charles Schwab

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead

“Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer 

“Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it." ~ Tom Hopkins

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust 

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche 

“The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered. Now we have the opportunity to bring this wisdom into our lives as prayers of gratitude for what already exists, rather than asking for our prayers to be answered.” ~ Gregg Braden 

"In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day — or to celebrate each special day.” ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

“This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.” “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” ~ Maya Angelou

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” ~ Albert Schweitzer 

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton 

“Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.” ~ Deepak Chopra

“Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?” ~ Charles Stanley

“Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health, personal growth, individuation and self-actualization.” ~ Carl Jung

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~  Buddha

“Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.” ~ Mother Teresa 

“Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles  

“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.” ~ Buddha 

“My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.” ~ Louise Hay 

“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle 

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.” ~ David Steindl-Rast 

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles 

“I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.” ~ Marianne Williamson 

“Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now?” ~ Wayne Dyer 

“Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” ~ Og Mandino 

“Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.” ~ Caroline Myss 

“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.” ~ Alice Walker 

“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.” ~ Tecumseh 

“May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today.” ~ Ojibwe Saying