Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
Each time you happen to me all over again.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.
It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
Ma tu sapevi, tu capivi, tu ti rendevi conto di come il mondo esterno sappia trascinare con le sua dita dorate... eppure detestavi le cose che esso richiede; tu detestavi la felicità comprata con la slealtà, la crudeltà e l'indifferenza.
Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Yes, you have been away a very long time. ""Oh, centuries and centuries; so long," she said, "that I’m sure I’m dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;
Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.
What do you call the weak point?" He paused. "The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
