Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. So far from being a curse, work is the greatest blessing.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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Ah, seek the treasure of a mind at rest And store it in the treasury of Ease; Not worth a loyal heart, a tranquil breast, Were all the riches of thy lands and seas!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Love and tenderness are qualities of humanity,
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
Oh, weep no more! in sorrow's dwelling-place The roses yet shall spring from the bare floor! And heart bowed down beneath a secret pain— Oh stricken heart! joy shall return again, Peace to the love-tossed brain—oh, weep no more!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
…the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius, The Analects
One step towards independent thinking always compels the next step and makes it easy. It is such a joy to find yourself thinking, as is reasonable to yourself instead of as somebody has told you.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Glory of Christ
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Cheerfulness gives elasticity to the spirit. Spectres fly before it; difficulties cause no despair, for they are encountered with hope, and the mind acquires that happy disposition to improve opportunities which rarely fails of success.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
…very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
It is only the joys we share that give happiness; it is only the thoughts we express that enrich our own minds; it is only the strength we use in actual helpfulness that makes our own souls strong.
Christian D. Larson, Just Be Glad
In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
The Buddha, The Dhammapada
Do not keep your kindness in water-tight compartments. If it runs over a bit 'twill do no harm.
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir, Our National Parks
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Always say "yes" to the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
If a piece of wood became as aware of the nearness of God as an archangel is, the piece of wood would be as happy as an archangel.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It
Do not take life too seriously—you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
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