Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

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

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

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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

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.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.