ROBERT BENCHLEY

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

ELIE WIESEL

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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ANON

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.

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OSCAR WILDE

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

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JOHN BUCHAN

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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HORACE

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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E.E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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MOTHER TERESA

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

ANON

Fear less, hope more.
Whine less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more.
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.

JOHN BARRYMORE

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

ANTON CHEKHOV

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.

Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY

Love does not exist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

MARK TWAIN

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

GEORGE ASAF

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

[from the song “Pack up your troubles”]

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

If you don't like the way the world is, change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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MAHATMA GANDHI

Freedom is not worth having unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

ANON

If you’re willing to walk the path of the dreamer, anything is possible.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth and be found out by accident.

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LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

GEORGE HERBERT

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Chinese Proverb

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

JULIUS CAESAR

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see, than about what they can.

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