A collection of happy thoughts and things that I like.
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No more school happy dance! Get your double dream feet on!
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
Never regret something that once made you smile.
-Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin
I am much more independent than I originally thought, and much more capable when I am alone then what I thought I would be.
But you don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
Zombie Marie Curie.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
I remember memorizing things I've never needed since. Now I get to make others do the same.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis
English majors have Shakespearean sonnets. Math majors have the unit circle.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
John Stott