Yesterday is history...Tomorrow a mystery....But today is a gift - that's why it's called "The Present"

If you are patient in one moment of anger; You will escape a hundred days of sorrow

Happiness is like a butterfly
The more you chase it the more it eludes you
But if you turn your attention to other things
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
~ Henry David thoreau ~

It is worth a fortune
to have the habit of looking
on the bright side of things

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

"We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total
meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of
our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime."

"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.