The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

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

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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

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.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

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

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.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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.

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.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.