Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

© Nathaniel Hawthorne @quote

My feet is my only carriage.

© Bob Marley @quote

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

© José Martí @quote

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

© Buddha @quote

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

© Tony Blair @quote

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

© Friedrich Nietzsche @quote

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

© Eleanor Roosevelt @quote

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

© Terry Pratchett @quote

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

© Charles Bukowski @quote

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

© Rumi @quote

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

© Richard Bach @quote

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

© Charles Bukowski @quote

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

© Johann Kaspar Lavater @quote

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

© Gautama Buddha @quote

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

© Haynes Bayly @quote

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

© Epictetus @quote

We are born not with purpose, but with potential.

© Octavia E. Butler @quote

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

© Knute Rockne @quote

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

© Eleanor Roosevelt @quote

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

© Charles Bukowski @quote

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

© Niccolo Machiavelli @quote