Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while