Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

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

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

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.

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?

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

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

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.