"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
-Allan K. Chalmers
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
-Johann von Goethe
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-Henry Miller
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Anon.
"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."
-Anon.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-Josh Billings
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
-John Burroughs
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
-Socrates
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
-Laura Swenson
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
-Orison Swett Marden.
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
-Anais Nin, The Diaries of Anaïs Nin
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Friends are treasures."
-Horace Bruns
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
-Elbert Hubbard
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
-Eugene Kennedy
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-Henry Drummond
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor Hugo
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao-Tzu
"Do all things with love."
-Og Mandino
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
-Sidney Poitier
He is able who thinks he is able."
-Buddha
"In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down."
-Brian Weir
"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."
-William Arthur Ward
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."
-Rupert Brooke
"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
You must do the things you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
-Robert Browning
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
-Henry Ward Beecher
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers"
-Anon.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man."
-Sir Theodore Martin
"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."
-Ovid
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
- Thomas Moore
When you love someone,
all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen
Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate,
intimate dance together
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.
- Amy Bloom -
We sat side by side in the morning light
and looked out at the future together.
- Brian Andres .
Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds
and warming your soul.
- Unknown
What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
- Victor Hugo
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
