Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

John Maxwell Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.Richard L. Evans You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.Source Unknown What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. Irish Blessing

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. Gordon B. Hinckley There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.Henry Ford Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Frank Tyger We must become the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Nelson Mandela

If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. Unknown The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. James M. Barrie 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 that has been opened for us. Helen Keller Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. Unknown To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus If you want happiness for an hour take a nap. If you want happiness for a day go fishing. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime help someone else. Chinese Proverb Happy people plan actions, they dont plan results. Dennis Waitley If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. Joseph Addison Happiness is acceptance. Unknown Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only ones own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. Dalai Lama Most people would rather be certain theyre miserable, than risk being happy. Dr. Robert Anthony Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights. Kahlil Gibran Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Charles Caleb Colton Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we dont even remember leaving open. Rose Lane Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln