Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.

Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, read more

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.