• “The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.”

— Billy Graham

• "things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"- John Wooden
• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be played forward
• "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
• "Imaging the future is a kind of nostalgia."- John Green, Looking for Alaska
• "I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[Yes, this is over-quoted, but it has never fit a situation more perfectly]

• Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.- Kurt Vonnegut
• We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.-Oscar Wilde