“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
“I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise.
All I've got to do is apply it.” - John Candy, actor
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” - George Santayana, philosopher
“Change is due to ‘want’ power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” - George A. Sheehan, writer
“If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.” - Robert Anton Wilson, writer
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
- Melody Beattie, author
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” - Aristotle, philosopher
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”- Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet