A Lesson in Life
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.Â

If someone hurts you, betrays you , or breaks you heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to.

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.

You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it


If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go

"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.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor...

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

He who sings frightens away his ills

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

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains

The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens

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

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will

I wish you all the joy that you can wish

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Happiness...it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves

Happiness is good health and a bad memory