People who look toward others to make them happy are miserable.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

For we that live please must please to live.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

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

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

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

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.