“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?”
― Roy T. Bennett
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins
“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
