Confucius - Life Quote -

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." 

~ Confucius 

Lawrence G. Lovasik - Happiness -

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

Susan Polis Schutz - Take Control -

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”

~ Susan Polis Schutz

Ayn Rand - Motivation -

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

~ Ayn Rand

Thomas Merton - Mindfulness -

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

~  Thomas Merton

Phyllis McGinley - Compromise -

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

~ Phyllis McGinley, A Short Walk from the Station

Catherine Pulsifer - Complaning -

"We can choose to look forward to the day, or we can choose to moan and complain. It's your choice!" 

Catherine Pulsifer, from Happiness Is Not The Absence of Problems

Zelda Fitzgerald - Quote on Life -

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like

~ Zelda Fitzgerald 

Buddha - Existence -

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help you are freed." 

~ Buddha 

Buddha - On Life -

A man is not a great man because he is a warrior and kills other men; but because he hurts not any living being he in truth is called a great man.

~ Buddha Dhammapada.