Joy

The joy late coming late departs. 

--Lewis J. Bates

From the heart alone

What is uttered from the heart alone,

Will win the hearts of others to your own.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contentment

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

--John Balguy

Counsel

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

--Marcus Aurelius

The elegance of honesty

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

--Merry Browne

All we are asked

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.
--Elizabeth Goudge

Courage

To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that.
--Saint Teresa of Avila