It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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