Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen