

Happiness hates the timid!
- Eugene O’Neill
I’m not OK, you’re not OK- and that’s OK.
- William Sloane Coffin
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
- Sandra Bierig
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
- John Dryden
Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- Sigmund Freud
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
- Edward L. Curtis
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
- Michel de Montaigne
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
- Chinese Proverb
Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
- Anonymous
Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
- Susan Sarandon
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- George Santayana
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
“Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.”
- Dr. Boris Sokoloff