When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was.

Courage is not a lack of fear but the ability to act while facing fear.

Look at life through the wind-shield not the rear-view mirror.

Don't look where you fell, but where you slipped.

For everything they say can’t be done, there’s always someone willing to prove them wrong.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Anyone who’s always feeling sorry for himself, should be!

I think I might be addicted to sleep deprivation, but I'm too tired to be sure.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Money can buy amusement, but not happiness.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promisary note. Today is cash; spend it wisely.

“If I could give you one gift my friend, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you, so you would know how very special you are.”

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak!

Happiness is belonging - not belongings.

Joy is the background music in life.

He who does not think of himself as happy, is not happy.

If life gives you lemons, stock up on sugar

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you obtain happiness.

Faith doesn't get you around trouble, it gets you through it.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Maturity doesn't come with age - the opportunity for it does.

(Rabbi Refson)

It’s better to say the truth that you lied, then to lie that you said the truth.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it has no calories.

Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life.

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Nobody is as needy as the seeker of honor.
(R' Yisrael Salanter)

The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.

Freedom isn't free.
(bumper car sticker)

Be kind to your kids, they'll choose your nursing home.

A friend is a person who knows the song in your heart and sings it to you when you've forgotten the words

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Sunday mornings and wakefulness are contradictory terms

Gossip is like a film, it starts out as a negative then is developed and many times enlarged!

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Old age embellishes everything. It has the effect of the setting sun on the beautiful twilights of autumn.

If someone declares that he is able to do everything at sixty that he was able to do at twenty, then he was not doing very much when he was twenty.

Old age arrives suddenly, as does the snow. One morning, on awakening, one realizes that everything is white.

If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you

The entire life of a human being depends upon "yes" and "no" uttered two or three times between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.

So long as one continues to be amazed, one can delay growing old.

It is by growing old that one learns to remain young.

The person who considers himself too old to learn something has probably always been that way.

The good side of this is, as old as one might be, is that one is always younger than he will ever be.

Old age is winter for many people, but for those who are wise and optimistic, it is the happy and fruitful time of harvest.

The only place success comes before work, is in the dictionary.

There is no elevator to success, you have to climb the stairs!!

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The road to success is always under CONSTRUCTION!

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-- Helen Keller

One thing you can not recycle is wasted time!

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I'm an out-of-towner because I'm an individual

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Sign on a Philadelphian funeral home: "We would rather do business with 1,000 Al Qaeda Terrorists than one single American"

It's frustrating to know all the answers when no one bothers to ask you the question.

Better waste a minute in your life than your life in a minute.

Turn your face to the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you.

Happiness is like perfume, you can’t give it away without getting a little on yourself.

Smile, it gives your mouth something to do.

No one ever ruined his eyesight by looking at the bright side of things.

A smile costs less than electricity and gives more light.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Happiness comes from what you are and not from what you have.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

The heart is happiest when it beats for others.

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created to word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language." - J. Michael Straczynski

A man that makes no mistake usually doesn’t do anything.

There are two types of people that don’t say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot!

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

The fellow who jumps to conclusions is not always certain of a happy landing!

True self knowledge comes from knowing how much there is to learn.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do.
The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

G-d loves you because of who He is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

Happiness multiplies when you divide it with others.

Use time as a tool – not as a couch!

A good leader walks his talk.

He who puts his trust in nobody knows he can't be trusted.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
–Plato

He who lies with dogs shall rise with fleas.

Fear is a dark room where negatives are developed.

Proud people hate pride - in others.

Success is a journey - not a destination.

Five out of every four people have problems with fractions.