Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Lewis Carroll
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Malcolm X
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Izaak Walton
No man can lose what he never had.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Audrey Hepburn
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
Ulysses S. Grant
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.