
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
- Topic: Happiness, Health, Purpose
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
› George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
› George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
› George Bernard Shaw
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
› Henry David Thoreau
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
› George Sand
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
› Thomas Jefferson
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
› Adam Smith
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
› Dalai Lama
Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
› John Stuart Mill
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
› Albert Schweitzer
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
› Buddha
The cure is, is worse than the disease.
› Virgil
The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
› Mohandas Gandhi
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
› Andrew Carnegie
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
› William Arthur Ward
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
› Isaac Newton
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
› John Stuart Mill
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
› John Steinbeck
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
› Dante
A winner never taught me how to quit.
› Jeffrey Benjamin
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
› Carl Jung
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
› J. C. Penney
If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.
› Alan Cohen
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
› Dolly Parton
