Horace

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Let’s make ourselves happy

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.