If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day—go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month—get married.
If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime—help others.
-  Chinese Proverb 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
-  James Oppenheim 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-  Robert Frost 

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.
-  John Jay Chapman 

Life is a roller-coaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
-  David Schmaltz 

You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last night’s cornbread--stale and dry.
-  Loretta Lynn 

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
-  James Dent 

Love and time—those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.
-  Gary Jennings 

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
-  Arnold Glasgow 

Our only security is our ability to change.
-  John Lilly 

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
-  Golda Meir 

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
-  Comte de Buffon

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.
-  Mary Kay Ash 

People count up the faults of those who are keeping them waiting.
-  French Proverb 

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
-  Proverbs 15:15 

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
-  Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit" 

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
-  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda  

You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it?
-  Steven Wright 

It's easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is much better at the top.
-  Arnold Bennet 

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
-  Doug Horton

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-  Calvin Coolidge 

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
-  Emilie Cady 

No pressure, no diamonds.
-  Mary Case 

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
-  Chinese Proverb 

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
-  Dame Flora Robson 

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
-  Sally Berger 

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
-  Kathleen Norris 

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
-  General George S. Patton 

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
-  J. Askenberg 

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-  Moshe Dayan 

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
-  Charles C. West 

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
-  E.L. Simpson 

Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
-  A.C. Jolly 

Conscience is God’s presence in man.
-  Emanuel Swedenborg 

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-  Elvis Presley 

Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday.
-  John Wayne 

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
-  Carl Sandburg 

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-  Lady Bird Johnson 

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.
-  Houssaye.