WoRdS To LiVe By

• "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." ~~Aristotle
• "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness." ~~John Dewey
• "Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness." ~~Saint Augustine
• "Paint the walls of your mind with many beautiful pictures." ~~William Lyon Phelps
• "The world in which you live is not primarily determinedby outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind." ~~Norman Vincent Peale
• "Every generation finds it hard to hear what its children need --- because its chidhood is still ringing in its ears." ~~Ellen Goodman
• "Considering life's brevity, we should travel abundantly, with great enthusiasm." ~~Peter Megargee Brown
• "What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather, indicates, his fate." ~~Henry David Thoreau
• "What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." ~~Aristotle
• "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rathen than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony." ~~William Henry Channing
• "Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed." ~~William Bennett
• "There is no coming to consciousness without pain." ~~Carl Jung
• "People cultivate five thousand roses in a garden... and still they do not find what they seek... and yet what they are seeking may be found in a single rose or a drop of water." ~~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "A random act of kindness spreads like wildfire because all of us respond to love. Love your life." ~~Blake Foster
• "Life is a series of moments. Each moment should be welcomed in joy and relinquished in joy." ~~Deepak Chopra
• "You may delay, but time will not." ~~Benjamin Franklin
• "Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not." ~~Robert Henri
• "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• "Nothing is more revealing than movement. Actions do speak." ~~Ogden Nash
• "The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are." ~~Bruce Barton
• "We all find time to do what we really want to do." ~~William Feather
• "If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." ~~Rollo May
• "No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness." ~~Graham Greene
• "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." ~~George C. Scott
• "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." ~~Mikhail Baryshnikov
• "There is an essence of the divine in all living things. And each person is literally a microcosm of the universe." ~~Gloria Steinem
• "There is just one life for each of us: our own." ~~Euripides
• "You can never step in the same river twice." ~~Heraclitus
• "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." ~~Grandma Moses
• "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." ~~John F. Kennedy
• "You've got one life to live. It's short, at best. It's a wonderful privilege and a terrific opportunity --- and you've been equipped for it. Use your equipment. Give it all you've got." ~~Norman Vincent Peale

~~~ lifted from "Things I Want My Daughters To Know" by an inspiring author, Alexandra Stoddard ~~~