When some external event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
There is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn. - 'A Course in Miracles'
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus (1913-60)
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
Few things are needed to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; this is the reason so many of mankind are miserable. - Francois La Rochefoucauld (1613-80)
Happiness is a present attitude-- not a future condition. - Hugh Prather
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
Like it or not, life is lived in and through the mind. - Anonymous
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove. - Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
Joy is not in things; it is in us. - Richard Wagner (1813-83)
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