To accept what you are

“To accept what you are is to be content,

and contentment is the greatest wealth.

To work with patience is to gather power.”
- Vimalia McClure -

Many persons have a wrong idea

“Many persons have a wrong idea of

what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self-gratification,

but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
- Helen Keller -

If you want happiness

“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 month — get married.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.
- Chinese proverb -

Happiness is like a cat

“Happiness is like a cat,

If you try to coax it or call it,

it will avoid you; it will never come.

But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business,

you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.”
- William Bennett -

What’s the use of worrying

“What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
- George Asaf -

People are always blaming

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.

I don’t believe in circumstances.

The people who get on in this world are

the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,

and if they can’t find them, make them.”

- George Bernard Shaw -

Your circumstances may

“Your circumstances may be uncongenial,

but they shall not remain so if you only perceive

an ideal and strive to reach it.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.”

- James Allen -

Most of us can learn to live

“Most of us can learn to live in

perfect comfort on higher levels of power.

Everyone knows that on any given day

there are energies slumbering in him which

the incitements of that day do not call forth.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy

that are ordinarily not called upon – deeper and deeper strata of

explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep.

The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

- William James -

The three great essentials

“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are;

first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.”

- Thomas Edison -

Some men go through life

“Some men go through life absolutely miserable because,

despite the most enormous achievement,

they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s.

I didn’t quite build St Paul’s,

but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.”

- Lord Thorneycroft