If you want to be happy, be.
leo tolstoy

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave,
and impossible to forget.
G Randolf.

to be nobody but yourself
in a world which is doing it’s best day and night to make you everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.
ee cummings.

blessed are those who can
give without remembering and
take without forgetting.
 elizabeth b.

this above all: to your own self be true.
shakespeare

No act of kindness however small is ever wasted.
Aesop.


“We make a living by what we get,
we make a life of what we give.”
Winston Churchill

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moment of comfort and convenience,
but how he stands at times of controversy and challenge."
Martin Luther King Jr.

Until you make peace with who you are,
you’ll never be content with what you have. 
Doris mortman.


Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. 
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where they may lead. 
Louisa may Alcott

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.”
John Ruskin

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant. 
Robert louis Stevenson.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred lord Tennyson.

Everything that I love I love because I understand.
Leo Tolstoy

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. 
Booker t. Washington.


The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. 
Marcus Aelius Aurelius


"When someone shows you who they are, believe them...the first time." 
Maya Angelou

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. 
Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. 
Mahatma Gandhi.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
william jane.

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” elie wiesel

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
In the name of the best within you,
do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst.
In the name of the values that keep you alive,
do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly,
the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.
Do not lose your knowledge but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand

"Look up to people others look down on, because we're not so different after all"_Bill Clinton

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."_T.S. Eliot

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."_Eleanor roosevelt

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"_Helen Keller

There is a force within that gives life-
Seek that.
In your body,there lies a precious jewel
Seek that.
If you are in search of the greatest treasure,don't look outside
Look within,and seek that.
Rumi