You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
We were together. I forget the rest.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
