Live, Play, Be Happy. It's Contagious

Life must be lived as play.
- Plato

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Anne Frank

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Angry and happy don't mix.
Flush out the angry, and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live, Play, Be Happy. It's Contagious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

The Secret of Happiness

Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering
       

Begin Now to Live Your Dream

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
- Thomas A. Edison

Dream. Begin. Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Explore. Dream. Discover.

Spread Your Wings

Dream and Take Action
    

A Time for Wandering

Not all who wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
- Peace Pilgrim

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Further reading: Question Your Questions

Where does your path lead?

Go With the Flow
       

Without Compassion There Is No Morality

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

To love our neighbor as ourselves
is such a truth for regulating human society,
that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
- John Locke

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

Religion is no more the parent of morality
than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
- Lemuel K. Washburn

Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave
as you wish them to behave
in the name of the Golden Rule
is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Go and Do Likewise

To Keep the Golden Rule

Our Character

More Understanding, Less Hate
       

Our Vision is Always Biased by What We Expect or Fear to See

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
You have a choice
about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Our Vision is Always Biased by What We Expect or Fear to See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: What You See

Your Attitude is Your Window

What We Perceive