"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." James Oppenheim

"Running away will never make you free." Kenny Loggins

"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none." Christian Nestell Bovee

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." George Bernard Shaw

"The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome." Jonathan Swift

 
"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."
W. H. Auden

 
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Robert G. Ingersoll