Fight

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. ~Dennis Prager

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. ~Ashley Smith

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. 

It turns what we have into enough, and 

more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos

to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn 

a meal into a feast, a house into a home, 

a stranger into a friend. ~Melody Beattie

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness

received. Thankfulness is the natural

impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ~Henry Van Dyke

Optimism

Optimism is the faith that leads to

achievement. Nothing can be done without

hope and confidence. ~Helen Keller

The essence of optimism is that it takes 

no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, 

to claim the future for himself and not to

abandon it to his enemy. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Knowledge

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can

become the pilot of the soul. ~Will Durant

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility

cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only

when I fall do I get up again. ~Vincent Van Gogh

Grace

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

Confidence

 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by 

every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 

'I lived through this horror. I can take the

next thing that comes along.' ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor,

on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful

protection and on unselfish performance.

Without them it cannot live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Attitude

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ~Brian Tracy

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. ~Khalil Gibran

Possible

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ~Arthur C. Clarke

Every day we should hear at least one little

song, read one good poem, see one exquisite

picture, and, if possible, speak a few

sensible words. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conquer

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales

whose gates are guarded by dragons: we

must fight in order to conquer it. ~Alexandre Dumas

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges,

dig deep within yourself to conquer fears.

Never let anyone bring you down. 

You got to keep going. ~Chantal Sutherland

Renew

 Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit.

Then get back to work. ~Ralph Marston

We need quiet time to examine our lives

openly and honestly - spending quiet time

alone gives your mind an opportunity to

renew itself and create order. ~Susan L. Taylor

Comfort

The ultimate measure of a [woman] is not where [she] stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where [she] stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ~Humphry Davy

Inspire

 Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. ~Mattie Stepanek

Good actions give strength to ourselves and

inspire good actions in others. ~Plato

Love

Where there is love there is life. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ~Ann Landers

Encourage

I want to encourage women to embrace their 

own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is

beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I

mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own

way, and that's like women too. ~Miranda Kerr

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us  understand that He's sufficient for all our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life. I found that my worrying stopped. ~Charles Stanley

Positive

 No matter what you're going through, there's 

a light at the end of the tunnel and it may 

seem hard to get to it but you can do it 

and just keep working towards it and you'll

find the positive sides of things. ~Demi Lovato

In order to carry a positive action we must

develop here a positive vision. ~Dalai Lama

Joy

Find a place inside where there's joy, and

the joy will burn out the pain. ~Joseph Campbell

The joy in life comes from encounters with

new experiences, and hence there is no

greater joy than to have an endlessly

changing horizon, for each day to have 

a new and different sun. ~Christopher McCandless

Life

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ~Marcus Aurelius

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. 

Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~Lao Tzu