I learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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.

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

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

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

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

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

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

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

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

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

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

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

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

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.