Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.― Milan Kundera

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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

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The future depends on what we do in the present.

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. — The Dalai Lama

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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People say that money isn’t the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. — Joan Rivers

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Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. — Ann Brashares

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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.- Jimmy Carter

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Happiness is like a cloud—if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. — Sarah McLachlan

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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington

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