The third element of true love is joy. If during the time you love you cry a lot, you'll make the other person cry a lot too. That is not true love. So true love should have the element of joy. -  Thich Nhat Hahn

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”  
- Nido Qubein

"Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” - Karl Lagerfield

"Everyone is special, everyone is important.  If you think of it that way then, it kind of nullifies the concept of "specialness".  It's a statistical inevitability that most of us are kind of average and there's nothing wrong with that.  That's really a big part of my point...Let's get past that. One will be judged on who you are and what you do.  And, one should not assume that every success and accolade will fall into one's lap simply because you're a good person. Life just doesn't work that way…" - David McCullough, Jr.

From the book In The Garden of Thoughts by Dodinsky

"Do not waste the balance of life left to you in thoughts about other persons, when you are not referring to some advantage of your fellows--for why do you rob yourself of something else which you might do?"  - Marcus Aurelius

“There is nothing more precious than laughter”  - Frida Kahlo