"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." Rose Wilder Lane

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." Kahlil Gibran

"You're never too old to become younger." Mae West

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." Rabbi Abraham Heschel

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." Bertrand Russell