There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~Carl Jung

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
~Francoise de Motteville

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
~George Sand

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
~HH the Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~HH the Dalai Lama

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
~Helen Keller

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 which has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
~Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
~Henry David Thoreau

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
~Horace Friess

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
~James M. Barrie

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.
~Kin Hubbard

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
~M. Scott Peck

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
~Margaret Bonnano

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
~Mark Twain

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
~Martha Washington

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Norman MacEwan

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
~Peyton Conway March

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
~Ramona L. Anderson

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~Robert Heinlein

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

When i was young, i admired clever people. Now I that am old, I admire kind people.
~Abraham Joshua

Kind words do not cost much yet they accomplish much.
~Blaise Pascal

Welldone fabulous fab

Scully: Homer, we're going to ask you a few simple yes or no questions. Do you understand?
Homer: Yes. (lie dectector blows up)

Something my professor said tonight:


You never make a mistake by doing the right thing; even if the outcome is not what you expected.