“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.”
—Sir John Lubbock
November 2010
“I love life…Yeah, I’m sad, but at the same time, I’m really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It’s like…It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I’m feeling is like a beautiful sadness.”
—Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It’s true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.”
—Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
“Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.”
—Margaret Cho
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
—Charles Dickens
“Don’t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.”
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“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don’t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don’t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.”
—Peter McWilliams, Life 101
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
—Plato
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
—Winston Churchill
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
—Dr. Seuss
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson
