J. R. R. Tolkien

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

James 1:2-3 NIV

² Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

Joanna Field

Sometimes I find in my happiest moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Zhuangzi

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Carl Jung

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Abraham Lincoln

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.