morgs

It’s a quotation sensation!

“Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.” - Mary McLeod Bethune.

“Better be happy than wise.” - Anonymous.

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” - Colette.

“With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.” - Chinese proverb.

“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.” - Helen Keller.

“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Charles Kingsley.

“What we call happiness is what we do not know.” - Anatole France.

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.” - Mignon McLaughlin.

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” - Dennis Wholey.

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” - Anonymous.

“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” - Bette Howland.

“Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” - Tom Walsh.

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?” - Jane Austen.

“Enjoy yourself. These are the ‘good old days’ you’re going to miss in the years ahead.” - Anonymous.

“No pleasure without pain.” - Anonymous.

“But here’s what I’ve learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.” - Oriana Fallaci.

“Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.” - Anonymous.

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.” - Pearl Bailey.

“So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.” - Carl Jung.

“My heart is like a singing bird.” - Christina Georgina Tossetti.

“I don’t think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.” - Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would be, I think, an American cow.” - William Lyon Phelps.

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” - Ayn Rand.

“When unhappy, one doubt everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.” - Joseph Roux.

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” - Maureen Dowd.

“‘Good enough never is’ has become the motto of this company.” - Debbi Fields.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” - Reinhold Niebuhr.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.” - Kathleen Casey Theisen.

“How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.” - Euripides. (:

“Whatever is–is best.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

“Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.” - Shakti Gawain.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.” - George Bernard Shaw.

“Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.” - Fay Weldon.

“She had believed the land was her enemy, and she struggled against it, but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways.” - Louis L’Amour.

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” - Chuang-tzu.

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.” - Abraham Lincoln.

“Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.” - Agnes Turnbull.

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” - Virrginia Woolf.

“If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.” - Cicero.

“Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.” - Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

“Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.” - Anonymous.

“To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.” - Anonymous.

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”  - Sara Teasdale.

“We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.” - Walter Savage Landor.

“The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.” - Nina Berberova.

“Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel better: not, ‘This is a misfortunate,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is a good fortune.’” - Marcus Aurelius.

“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.” - James Russell Lowell.

“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.” - T.S. Eliot.

“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as t si, is the only way of being happy.” - Jennie Jerome Churchill.

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness an silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” - Helen Keller.

“I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt i you don’t set any condition.” - Arthur Rubenstein.

“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” - Werner Erhard.

“As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, / So to yield with life solves the insolvable; / To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.” - Lao-tzu.

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - Anonymous.

“And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as begin exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.” - Alcoholics Anonymous.

“Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptances that new possibilities appear.” - Anonymous.

“To oppose something is to maintain it.” - Ursula K. LeGuin.

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” - Gerald Jampolsky.

“I know now that patriotism is not enough; I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.” - Edith Cavell.

“Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.” - Marie Corelli.

“Nobody ever forgets where he burned a hatchet.” - Kin Hubbard.

“Anger as soon as fed is dead, ’tis starving makes it fat.” - Emily Dickinson.

“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.” - Isaac Watts.

“Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.” - Audre Lorde.

“Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.” - Olive Moore.

“Resentment is the ‘number one’ offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.” - Alcoholics Anonymous.

“To oppose something is to maintain it.” - Ursula K. LeGuin.

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” - Hannah Arendt.

“Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.” - Gerald Jampolsky.

“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.” - Jean Paul Richter.

“Those who can’t forget are worst off than those who can’t remember.” - Anonymous.

“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” - Saint Augstine.

“O friends, I pray tonight, / Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. / The way is lonely; let me feel them now. / Think gently of me; I am travel-worn, / My faltering feet are pierce with many a thorn. / Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! / When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need / The tenderness for which I long tonight.” - Belle Eugenia Smith.

“Let us forget and forgive injuries.” - Miguel de Cervantes.

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.

“It is easer to forgive an enemy than a friend.” - Madame Dorothee Deluzy.

“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.” - Jessamyn West.

“Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.” - Dag Hammarskjold.

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments.” - Joseph Addison.

“Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen t me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it’ll turn out that this was good, so I shan’t worry about it too much.”  - William Gaines.

“Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make.” - Bill Veeck.

“The advantages of a losing team: (1) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear. (2) Defeats do not disturb one’s sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day, ‘What was the score?’; people take it for granted that you lost.” - Elmer E. Bates.

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” - Agatha Christie.

“Be glad of life because it gives you that chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.” - Henry Van Dyke.

“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk… it’s all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.” - Arthur Rubinstein.

“This is another day! Are its eyes blurred / With maudlin grief for any wasted past? / A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! / Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!” - Don Marquis.

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.” - Emily Dickinson.

“Think of the ills from which you are exempt.” - Joseph Joubert.

“A man should always consider how much more unhappy he might be than he is.” - Joseph Addison.

“The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.” - Arthur Schopenhauer.

“Better to suffer than to die.” - Jean de La Fontaine.

“For grief unsuffered, tears unshed, for clouds that scattered overhead; / For pestilence that came not high, for dangers great that passed me by; / For sharp suspicion smoothed, allayed, for doubt dispelled that made afraid; / For fierce temptation well withstood, for evil plot that brought forth good; / For weakened links in friendship’s chain that, sorely tested, stood the strain; / For harmless blows with malice dealt, for base ingratitude unfelt; / For hatred’s sharp unuttered word, for bitter jest unknown, unheard; / For every evil turned away, unmeasured thanks I give today.” - Anonymous.

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” - Woody Allen.

“Happy thou art not; for what thou has not, still though striv’est to get; and what thou hast, forget’est.” - William Shakespeare.

“Men always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.” - John Oliver Hobbes.

“When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.” - French proverb.

“Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.” - Marcus Aurelius.

“If we get everything that we want, we sill soon want nothing that we get.” - Vernon Luchies.

“It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.” - G.K. Chesteron.

“So long as we can lose any happiness, he possess some.” - Booth Tarkington.

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” - Maxim Gorky.

“After my mother’s death, I began to see her as she had really been. It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.” - Nancy Hale.

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” - Karl Barth.

“He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.” - Marcus Annaeus Seneca.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” - Melody Beattie.

“Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.” - Elizabeth Carter.

“Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.” - Comtesse Diane.