Something Beautiful

Happiness

This quotation has helped me in recent days --

Happiness consists in activity.  Such is the constitution of our nature.  It is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.  -- John Mason Good (1764-1827), English physician

The important words here, for me, were "Such is the constitution of our nature."  Those words somehow helped me get going again.   

A new day

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. -- J. B. Priestly

Healing through goodness

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. --     Hippocrates (460-400 B.C.)

Obscure heroes

"For man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes." - Victor Hugo

What to do

 

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.

 

-- Harold Thurman Whitman

A splendid torch

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.  -- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

What people want

   

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.  -- John Steinbeck

The world's work

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world's work. -- Woodrow Wilson

Proverb - true or false?

Is this assertion true or false --

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.  -- Japanese proverb

It may well be true.  But I don't think it's a saying that I personally can benefit from.