If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
- Topic: Happiness, Love
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
