Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

The memory of the heart eliminates bad memories and magnifies the good ones.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Every person's life is a journey toward himself.

-- Hermann Hesse

Know your own happiness.

-- Jane Austen

All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.

-- Alexandre Dumas

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

-- Herman Melville

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

-- Charles Dickens