Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.

~ Epictetus

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

~ Willa Cather

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

~ Seneca

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

~ Jimmy Durante

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

~ David Weatherford

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

~ Xenocrates

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

~ Emily Dickinson

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

~ Isak Dinesen