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.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

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

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Time makes more converts than reason.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?