“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.”

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

In a thousand ways my friends turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I feel like any other Brazilian citizen, I have a lot of happiness in me. I thank God for showing me the path to follow.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that’s playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.