"Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase." Charles Dickens
"Happiness is the meaning of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." Aristotle
"Happiness may be a more authentically religious value than righteousness." Rabbi Harold Kustner
"Even a happy life can not be without a measure of darkness and the word 'happiness' would be without a meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." Carl Gustav Jung
"What you resist persists." Carl Gustav Jung
"I accept life unconditionally … most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any conditions." Arthur Rubinstein.
"If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place. Shalom Aleichem
"The question is laid out for each of us to ask: whether to hold on or drop the mask." Martha Boesing
"When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion, but will also understand peace and joy." Anonymous
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another." G.W. von Leibnitz
"No person could save another." Joyce Carol Oates
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." M. Kathleen Casey
"My mission on earth is to recognize the void ---- inside and outside of me." Rabbi Menahem
"To be what we are, and become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life." Robert Louis Stevenson
"The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness." Margot Asquith
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." Agnes Repplier
"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." Trina Paulus
"The true wonder of the world is available everywhere, with the minutest parts of our bodies, in the vast expanses of the cosmos, and in the interconnectedness of these and all things." Michael Starks
"It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God." Henry David Thoreau
"Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story." Max Ehrmann
"I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." Kahil Gibran
"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." Erica Jong
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye …" Antoine de Saint Exupery
"We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow." Rabindranath Tagore
"All things all possible with God." Mark 10:27
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, And you will find; knock and it will Be opened to you." Matthew 7:7
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." Hermann Hesse
"The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some spring from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation." Francis Bacon
"Madness need not be all breakdowns. It may also be break-through." R.D. Laing MD
"... And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round oceans and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man." William Wordsworth
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein
"Imperfection is the wound that lets God in." Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham
"All of us must act selfishly to learn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray & be betrayed to learn to value trust & commitment." Willard Gaylin MD
"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, & rejection is the hell he fears." John Steinbeck
