Never let grief overshadow gratitude.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

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

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

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you.

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

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

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

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

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.