The Book of Wisdom
 
The happiest people seem to be those who have no
particular for being happy except that they are so.
- William Ralph Inge
 
 
It is not how much we have,
but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
 
 
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
Blessed is the influence of one true,
loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot
 
 
Every day is a gift.  Treat it kindly.
Share it with joy.
- Unknown
 
 
When I think of those who have influenced
my life the most, I think not of
the great, but of the good.
- John Knox
 
 
No act of kindness, no matter
how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
 
Where we love is home, home that
our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
The good is the beautiful.
- Plato
 
A wonderful fact to reflect upon,
that every human creature is constituted to be a
profound secret and mystery to every other.
- Charles Dickens
 
 
The difficulty in education is
to get experience out of  ideas
- George Santayana
 
 
We do not see things as they are,
we see things as we are
- Talmudic saying
 
 
The measure of success is not whether you have
a tough problem to deal with, but whether its
the same problem you had last year.
- John F. Dulles
 
Good, better best
Never let it rest
Until the good becomes the better
And the better becomes the best.
- Elementary school song
 
People see things only in their own fashion!
- Moliere
 
And all people live, not by reason of any care
they have for themselves, but by the love
for them that is in other people.
- Leo Tolstoy
 
 
It's the little moments, humble though they be, that
make the mighty ages of eternity.
-Julia A. Carney
 
 
Life is nothing without friendship.
- Cirero
 
 
What do we live for, if it is not to make life
less difficult for each other?
- Mary Ann Evans
 
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the
full value of a joy, you must have
somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
 
No one can be better off without
making someone worse off
- Pareto Optmality
 
 
It is tranquil people who accomplish much.
- Thoreau
 
 
We shall see what we shall see.
-19th century proverb
 
 
 
 
 
Faith, like light, should always be
simple and unbending.
- Martin Luther
 
 
The most wasted day of all is that in which
we have not laughed.
- Sebastien Chamfort
 
 
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.
That word is LOVE.
- Sophocles
 
 
The door of happiness opens outward.
- Soren Kierkegaard.
 
 
There was never a person who did anything worth
doing that did not receive more than he gave.
- Unknown.
 
 
 
 
Friendship with oneself is all-important;
without it, we can't be friends with
anyone else in the world.
- Florence Nightingale.
 
 
 
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo DaVinci
 
 
 
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in
the mind, and fills it with a steady
and perpetual serenity.
- Joseph Addison
 
 
 
Laughter is the shortest distance
between two people.
- Victor Borge
 
 
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
- Robert Ingersoll.
 
 
 
 
 
The entire sum of existence
is the magic of being needed
by just one person.
- Vi Putman.
 
 
 
A good disposition is a virtue in itself.
- Ovid
 
 
 
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance
to love and to work and to play
and to look at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
 
 
 
To be trusted is a greater
compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonal
 
 
 
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
It doesn't so much matter what you do
in particular, so long as you have your life.
- Henry James
 
 
 
Of cheerfulness--the more it is spent,
the more of it remains.
-Emerson
 
 
 
 
 
No love, no friendship can cross the path of
our destiny without leaving
some mark on it forever.
- Francois Mauriac
 
 
 
A good heart is better than
all the heads in the world.
- Anonymous
 
 
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure
we should always be as happy as kings.
- Robert L. Stevenson
 
 
 
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
- Thomas L. Beddoes
 
 
 
There are two worlds: the world that we measure
with line and rule, and the world that we feel
with our hearts and imagination.
- Leigh Hunt
 
 
 
 
 
 Exuberance is beautiful.
- William Blake
 
 
 
The happiness of your life depends on
the quality of your thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
If it's sanity you're after,
there's no recipe like laughter.
- Henry R. Elliot
 
 
All good things that exist
are the fruits of originality.
- John S. Mill
 
 
Joy enters the world in every human heart, and
is shared in every smile.
- Unknown
 
 
 
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
 
 
Love, like warnth, should beam forth on every side.
- Martin Luther
 
 
 
What wisdom can you find
that is greater than kindness?
- Rousseau
 
 
 
It is through ordinary accomplishments
that we add luster to life.
- Philip D. Stanhope
 
 
 
There is one who kisses,
and the other who offers a cheek.
- French proverb
 
 
 
We must have perseverance and above all
confidence in ourselves. We must believe
that we are gifted for something.
- Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
 
We only part to meet again.
John Gray
 
 
No one is useless in this world who lightens
the burden of it to anyone else.
- Charles Dicken
 
 
Everything that is done in the world
is done by hope.
- Martin Luther
 
 
It is with life as in a play--it matters not how long
the action lasts, only how good the acting is.
- Seneca
 
 
Pretty much all of the honest truth-tellilng
there is in the world is done by children.
- Anonymous
 
 
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
 
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if
nine out of ten bring you nothing,
one alone may repay you.
- C.A. Tencin
 
 
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope
 
 
One ough every day to hear a little song,
read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and, if it were possible, to speak
a few reasonable words.
- Goethe
 
 
 
He is wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
 
 
 
It seems to me we can never give up
longing and wishing while we are thoroughtly
alive.  There are certain things we feel
to be beautiful and good, and
we must hunger after them.
- George Eliot
 
 
 
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