Happiness comes from within, from family, from friends and from loved ones. All the possessions in the world become meaningless if we have a broken heart. And lying on our death-bed, everything we own loses meaning. The only important things then are having people that care, cherishing the memories we hold of our lives and with some luck, picking daisies.

More quotes...

• "May I find the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
  the courage to change the things I can,
  and the wisdom to know the difference."
  Various

• "A hug is the perfect gift -- one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it."
  Ivern Ball

• "Love anything and your heart will be certainly wrung, and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
  "To love at all is to be vulnerable."
  The Four Loves

• "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
  Dan Stanford

• "Only a fool tests the depth of water with both feet."
  African Proverb

• "As I age I refuse to deny my years. When asked at 30, I'll be 30. When the question comes up at 45, I'll take 45. For what year could I subtract? The one in which my son or daughter was born? Or the year I first fell in love? How about one less favourable? Like the year I came down with pneumonia. Or one of those grief-filled years spent saying goodbye to someone close? Maybe I could choose the seemingly insignificant. That year I saw a falling star? Or the one spent not enthralled with life, just content with it?
  "No. I think I'll keep them all -- the good years, the bad and even the not so memorable. To deny one would be to deny myself. Because added up, they are my life."
  Sheila B. Cabrera

• "The greatest legacy we can leave our friends is happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the sand and placed in tiny boxes that lie undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness.
  "Memories. Love's best preservative."
  Og Mandino -- The Choice

• "The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave a sense of security and calm behind that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration that are needed to produce valuable and lasting results."
  Carl Jung

• "Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the many functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, empathy and compassion.
  "We care. It is our curse. It is our blessing."
  Dean R. Roontz -- Strangers

• "The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
  Lucy M. Montgomery -- Anne of Avonlea

• "The length of your education is less important that its breadth, and the length of your life is less important that its depth."
  Marilyn vos Savant -- Parade

• "Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate."
  R.D. Laing

• "Those who would sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither."
  Benjamin Franklin

• "Reality is only an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
  Albert Einstein