A Book of Bliss: Thoughts that Make You Smile

Some nice quotes... from "Book of Bliss: Thoughts to Make You Smile":

• Giving of yourself and not expecting anything in return brings joy to you and to others.
• The best thing about good friends is the way they make you feel like the best version of yourself.
• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka
• Even if you can't see it, the sun is always shining.
• Patience is a gift you give to others that returns to you in kind.
• Embrace life's passions, but seek lasting contentment.
• Be proud of yourself everyday. There will always be a good reason.
• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie
• Because of deep love, one is courageous. ~ Lao Tzu
• Happy homes are built of blocks of patience. ~ Harold E Kohn
• It's the little things we do and say that mean as much as we go on our way. ~ Willa Hoey
• Love without ceasing, give without measure. ~ Malcolm Schloss
• A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~ Charles Dickens
• One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion. ~ Simone de Beauvior
• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ~ Pamela Vaull Starr
• Enjoy the little things today.
• Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 
• Joy is realizing that all of nature's beauty exists for your pleasure.
• There is no great difference in the reality of one country or another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, or may have a different education or position. But they are all the same. They are all people to be loved. ~ Mother Teresa
• It's a bliss when your parents tell you that you make them proud. It doesn't matter how how you are; their approval still counts in spades.
• It's good to have an end to journey toward; but it's the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ursula K LeGuin
• Happiness makes up the height for what it lacks in length. ~ Robert Frost.
• Fulfilment can be as simple as placing the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle.
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey
• If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want.
• When someone asks you for a favor, be glad that you can do something for someone else and let him know that you are glad.
• Remember that happineness is a way of travel - not a destination. ~ Roy M Goodman
• Kind words can be short adn easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa
• Complimenting the good deed of another is a simple way to ensure that such deeds will be repeated.
• If you always keep your eyes on the path, you miss miles and miles of beautiful scenery.
• Giving is the highest expression of our power. ~ Vivian Greene
• Remember that althoug you are one of many, you are singularly unique.
• Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ~ Christian Morgenstern
• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot
• The best defense is a smile.
• It is the simplicities in nature that are the most soothing to your soul.
• Peace means loyalty to self... A loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act. ~ Ruth Beebe Hill
• Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. ~ Johann von Schiller
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ~ Thomas Jefferson
• The only way to see the beauty in all things is to believe that it is there and then look for it.
• Beauty is not caused. It is. ~ Emily Dickinson
• When you are truly listened to, it makes you much more willing to listen to someone else.
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~ Hugh Downs
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up. ~ Mark Twain
• From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. ~ Arthur Ashe
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
• The most precious times in life are the ones that surprise you and depart as quickly as they showed up, like shooting stars.
• Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain
• Rainy days are certainly dark and gloomy. Yet they are responsible for bringing forth all the beautfiul colours of spring. Love them for the beauty they bring.
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ James M Barrie
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
• Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. ~ Daniel W Josselyn
• Courage must come from a passion to triumph and an honest belief in one's rightness.
• We only part to meet again. ~ John Gay
• The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. ~ William McFee