quotes about being happy with life

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger


Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder


Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ~Author Unknown


The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864


Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left


There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens


Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown


Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much? ~Kin Hubbard


If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable. ~Grey Livingston


The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. ~Charles Luckman


It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. ~Nicholas Johnson


Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln


Lisa: "Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?"


A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy


God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. ~Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval (God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.) God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. ~Ralph Hodgson


It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert


As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894


Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it. ~Ted Ray, Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972


Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield