Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
-Swami Vivekananda
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Set your body aside; sit in your own awareness. You will be at once happy, forever still, forever free.
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey