Thoughtful Thursday

"Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!"
- William Arthur Ward

"If you want to be happy, be."
- Leo Tolstoy

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
- Marcel Pagnol

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
- Albert Einstein

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
- Dale Carnegie

"There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth: those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it."
- Germaine de Stael