What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? —Margaret Oliphant

All books are either dreams or swords. —Amy Lowell

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. —François de La Rochefoucauld

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. —Bill Williams

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. —Arthur Middleton

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. —Zoe Saldana

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively. —Elizabeth Kim

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. —Mohandas Gandhi

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. —Joseph Addison

Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded. —Charles Schwab

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart. —John Bunyan

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race. —Taylor Caldwell

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. —Elbert Hubbard

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. —Andy Rooney

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. —Gene Fowler

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. —Isabel Allende

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. —Frederick Buechner

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. —Francis Schaeffer

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. —Francis Bacon

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. —Lord Chesterfield

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. —Imre Lakatos

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. —Alan Watts

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. —Albert Bushnell Hart

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. —Bertrand Russell

The dog loves the boat! Nap time for the win! #Dog

Sunsets have this magical power to make everything freeze for a moment. 🌅 #sunset

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. —Rebecca West

Sunsets on the water are seriously the best, no doubt about it! 🌅💦#sunset #boating

Feeling super lucky to soak up all that gorgeous natural beauty! 🌿✨ #NatureLover

The loons are such loyal visitors! 🦢 I never get tired of their beautiful songs echoing across the lake. #NatureLovers

Camp days are the best! Who doesn't love summertime? ☀️ #SummerVibes

Life on the water? That's living the dream! 🌊 #Blessed

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. —Antonio Tabucchi

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. —John Dos Passos

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. —Philip B. Crosby

American corporations hate to give away money. —Stephen Ambrose

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it. —Laurie Lee

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada. —James E. Rogers

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. —James Russell Lowell

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. —Thomas More

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. —Richard Whately

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. —Mason Cooley

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. —Kit Williams

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity. —Jerome K. Jerome

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. —Kevyn Aucoin

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be. —Mark Bittman

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. —Francoise Sagan

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. —Norman Mailer