Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
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If you have the creative urge, it isn’t going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.
Hugh Macleod
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
Og Mandino
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon