Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams