See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, with Joy and Love triumphing.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

We are our choices.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

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

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

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

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

No human creature can give orders to love.