Imaginary troubles

"If I had my life to live over...I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles."
- Don Herold

Where have I gone wrong?

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
- Charles M. Schulz

Bad Memory

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
- Rita Mae Brown

Putting together and falling apart

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."
- Suzanne Collins

Be defeated by greater things

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Optimism or lack of cynicism

"I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism."
- Tom Hanks

Sane people

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Precious Privilege

"When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-- Marcus Aurelius

The things we love

"The things that we love tell us what we are."
-- St. Thomas Aquinus

Clouded Mind

"If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life."
-- Wu Men

Facebook funny - Mom and boy

T: "Mom, I'm so bored. I have nothing to do."
Me: "I can give you things to do."
L: "It can't be chores, or waltzing, or angry dancing."

Living

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie

Protection from happiness

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
- Jonathan Safran Foer

Smile first

"Start every day with a smile - and get it over with."
- W.C. Fields

Kick in the teeth

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney

Object of life

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
- George Orwell

Going Mad

"I have a plan - to go mad."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Go on failing

"Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better."
- Samuel Beckett

Following Paths

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and see a path. By all means, you should follow that."
- Ellen Degeneres

This is my life - both happy and sad

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
- Stephen Chbosky

Pens Dwell

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
- Jane Austen

Truth will set you free

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace

Plotting Happiness

"I'm kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

- J.D. Salinger

How to live?

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

- Jean-Paul Sartre -

Sing on the boat during the storm

"It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship."

- Anne Lamott -

Daring Life

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller -