"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Happiness | 4 bookmarks

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique."

James, William | Imagination | 3 bookmarks

"If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will."

James, William | Choice | 1 bookmarks

"You cannot be anything if you want to be everything."

Schechter, Solomon | Choice | 1 bookmarks

"There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make."

Zadra, Dan | Choice | 1 bookmarks

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

Bacon, Francis | Choice | 1 bookmarks

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

Buscaglia, Leo | Choice | 3 bookmarks

"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

Waitley, Denis | Enjoyment | 2 bookmarks

"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever."

Horton, Doug | Love | 8 bookmarks

"Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations."

Robertson, Frederick W. | Expectation | 3 bookmarks