It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

Source Unknown

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Horace

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

Steve Maraboli

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

Victor Hugo

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Antoine De SaintExupery

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

George Orwell

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

Chris Boucher

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton