-That's the way it is, is the reality that there is no free lunch in life, the reality that you cannot have your cake and eat it too, the reality that you have responsibility for your own life and not built-in right to have someone take care of you if you mess up.
-We are living in a time when most talk is about rights and very little about responsibility, when most talk is about getting what we deserve and very little about our duty to others.
-That is the theme of our age, rights without consequences, the willingness to stand up for something as long as it doesn't cost us anything.
-The basic problem this boy had, of course, was his parents, who by their unwillingness to have the boy face the consequences of his actions all his life, had bred a son who really believed he could do whatever he wanted without any bad consequences.
-In addition to the right to live without consequences and the right to live without guilt, it is also more and more frequently asserted nowadays that it is our right to have a good and happy outcome whenever we work hard to achieve something.
-There is not right in life to a good outcome.
-The secret to happiness in life: courage, sacrifice, and gratitude.
-If you want to be happy, you must begin not with rights but with responsibilities: with the courage to face reality, the courage to attempt great things at the risk of losing, the courage to lose bravely, the courage to suffer with patience, the courage to tell the truth.
If you want to be happy, you will find happiness arises not so much from getting your way and asserting your rights as it does from sacrificing your rights, sacrificing your time and treasure for the sake of others.
If you want to be happy, you will find happiness not from dwelling on all you do not have in life and feeling bitter about it. You will find happiness by dwelling on all that is good and true and beautiful in your life and being thankful for it.
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