He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates
From The Almanack of 1910

There would be fewer empty hearts if there were more occupied minds and busier bodies. Keep busy; exercise; stir around. Activity is the law of the universe. Even the world has to take its daily exercise and turn itself around.

Reprinted from The Almanack of 1960

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles Swindoll

For every one thing you regret, there are always a hundred more for which to be thankful.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe

Mistakes are the stepping-stones to mastery.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Laugh at yourself, life, and everything around you. Laugh as a remedy and a miracle drug that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective seemingly terrible defeats and worries in life.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.

Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll be among the stars.

Appreciate the accomplishments of your ancestors.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

To join heaven and earth, go beyond selfishness.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow;
Learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi

Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

Dream more while you are awake.

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

R. L. Stevenson

Spend a lot more time of your time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Eat more foods that is grown on a plant: eat less food that is manufactured in a plant.

Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Mother Theresa