You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

No garden is without its weeds.

There is no education like adversity.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Revenge-seeking minds destroy states, while those seeking reconciliation build nations.

Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life. It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.