“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – Heraclitus
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” – Lemony Snicket
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” – Albert Camus
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.” – Bertrand Russell
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” – Oscar Wilde
“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” – Rumi
“The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.” – Nikola Tesla
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.” – Victor Hugo
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.” – Victor Hugo
“I belong to the opposition party, which is called life.” – Honoré de Balzac
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.” – William Faulkner
“It’s not when you realise that nothing can help you – religion, pride, anything – it’s when you realise that you don’t need any aid.” – William Faulkner