I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph."
--John H. Johnson

2. "What is given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?"
--Catullus

3. "We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves."
--Confucius

4. "No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
--Charles Kendall Adams

5. "Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
--Golda Meir

6. "Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."
--James Thurber

7. "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
--Herm Albright