😊 Happiness

“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.”

— Helen Keller

#doors #opportunity #perspective

“The brain is like velcro for negative experiences and teflon for positive ones.”

— Rick Hanson

#brain #negativity #positivity

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

— Charles Schulz

#warmth #simplicity #love

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”

— Voltaire

#happiness #health #choice

“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

#jealousy #anyway #courage

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#life #dancer #dance

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brene Brown

#story #loving #bravery

“We need much less than we think we need.”

— Maya Angelou

#needs #less #thinking

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

#worry #control #acceptance

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions, the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#minute #fractions #charities

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”

— Maya Angelou

#thriving #mission #survival

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

— Aldous Huxley

#by-product #pursuit #activities

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back.”

— Tony Robbins

#gift #privilege #giving

“Oh happiness! Our being end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! Whatever thy name.”

— Alexander Pope

#aim #being #good

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #presence #absence

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams #confidence #success

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”

— Buddha

#path #journey #present

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

— Thomas Jefferson

#work #luck #effort

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#smile #breathe #slowly

“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.”

— Gabor Mate

#pain #escape #creation

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#authenticity #despair #identity

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”

— Samuel Johnson

#mind #disposition #contentment

“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you have already had.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#dances #memories #permanence

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he does not calculate his happiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counting #troubles #calculation

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

— Roald Dahl

#thoughts #face #sunbeams

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

#happiness #authenticity #self-acceptance

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

— Zhuangzi

#absence #striving #paradox

“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.”

— Democritus

#soul #possessions #dwelling

“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

— Confucius

#happiness #change #wisdom

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.”

— Joseph Addison

#happiness #self-acceptance #contentment

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#waiting #living #now

“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”

— William Shakespeare

#happiness #simplicity #daily life

“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”

— William Penn

#blessings #comparison #counting

“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured by the passing cloud of misfortune, but can never be extinguished.”

— Hannah More

#happiness #resilience #hope

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

— Robert Frost

#height #intensity #brevity

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton

#light #candle #mirror

“If you are going through a hard time, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

#hardship #persistence #moving

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Siddhartha Gautama

#sharing #candles #abundance

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

— Cicero

#happiness #tranquility #peace

“Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.”

— Jane Austen

#happiness #sharing #connection

“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

#appreciation #good #growth

“And now that you do not have to be perfect, you can be good.”

— John Steinbeck

#perfection #goodness #freedom

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as in what direction you are moving.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#direction #moving #standing

“Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

— Joseph Campbell

#joy #pain #inner-place

“Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”

— Shawn Achor

#joy #striving #potential

“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”

— Tara Brach

#acceptance #freedom #boundary

“In all adversity of fortune, the most unhappy sort of misfortune is to have been happy.”

— Boethius

#adversity #fortune #memory

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

— William James

#appreciation #craving #human-nature

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow.”

— Horace

#carpe-diem #seize #today

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#service #joy #action

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”

— Alan Watts

#meaning #alive #simple

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#experience #evolution #consciousness

“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”

— Wayne Dyer

#way #path #present

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#acceptance #present #choosing

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

— Walt Whitman

#celebration #self #singing

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

#happiness #self-reliance #responsibility

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”

— Democritus

#happiness #soul #materialism

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

#wisdom #change #self

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things.”

— Teresa of Avila

#patience #disturbing #passing

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

— Victor Hugo

#love #conviction #supreme

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

#production #consumption #responsibility

“Your heart and my heart are very old friends.”

— Hafiz

#heart #friendship #connection

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making something out of it after it is found.”

— James Russell Lowell

#creativity #making #finding

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#happiness #patience #mindfulness

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

— Thomas Jefferson

#family #home #moments

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

#letting-go #strength #holding

“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness.”

— Confucius

#change #adaptation #constant

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”

— Albert Einstein

#calm #modest #restlessness

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #avoidance #life

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#darkness #light #driving

“One is not born, but rather becomes, happy.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#becoming #birth #process

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

— Lord Byron

#pleasure #woods #solitude

“Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing, not a mere pleasurable feeling or fleeting emotion, but an optimal state of being.”

— Matthieu Ricard

#flourishing #optimal #deep

“The standard of success in life is not the things. It is not the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.”

— Esther Hicks

#joy #success #standard

“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#living #working #activity

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#authenticity #world #accomplishment

“From that hour I clove to him for a friend, and a friend we were, and are forever.”

— Herman Melville

#friendship #forever #bonding

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”

— Plato

#self-reliance #planning #independence

“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”

— Paulo Coelho

#now #time #urgency

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#misfortunes #worry #imagination

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#thinking #inner #minimal

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

— Emily Dickinson

#impermanence #sweetness #life

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#prayer #joy #abundance

“Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.”

— Naval Ravikant

#choice #skill #learning

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

— Charles Spurgeon

#happiness #enjoyment #gratitude

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.”

— A.A. Milne

#gratitude #heart #small

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Seneca

#happiness #action #effort

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#experience #reality #problem

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Herman Hesse

#stillness #sanctuary #retreat

“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”

— Haruki Murakami

#storm #transformation #resilience

“I do not think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

— Anne Frank

#beauty #misery #focus

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

— Rumi

#happiness #love #passion

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

— Dalai Lama

#purpose #lives #happy

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#anger #time #loss

“Happiness is not a goal to reach. It is a signal you are living the right way.”

— Maxime Lagace

#signal #living #right-way

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.”

— Henry James

#kindness #importance #triple

“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#butterfly #pursuit #stillness

“The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty.”

— John Locke

#liberty #pursuit #foundation

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”

— Thomas à Kempis

#happiness #kindness #service

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

— Gretchen Rubin

#time #days #years

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#thoughts #situation #cause

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

#life #wild #precious

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

#contentment #wholeness #gratitude

“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.”

— E.M. Forster

#happiness #fear #human nature

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#choice #mindset #determination

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#simplicity #detail #life

“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

#goodbye #hello #bravery

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#acceptance #feelings #impermanence

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#butterfly #moments #time

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#happiness #generosity #kindness

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim

#happiness #wisdom #present moment

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

— Allan K. Chalmers

#happiness #purpose #love

“Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

— Francis of Assisi

#necessary #possible #impossible

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

— Bertrand Russell

#interests #friendly #wide

“Happiness is an inner job. You do not need anyone or anything to make you happy.”

— Sharon Salzberg

#inner #independence #self

“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness.”

— David Hume

#industry #attainment #goal

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

— John Lennon

#friends #smiles #counting

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

#sorrow #joy #depth

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#rain #life #acceptance

“You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#waves #surfing #adaptation

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.”

— Washington Irving

#change #relief #transition

“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”

— Louise Hay

#thinking #problems #fixing

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

— James M. Barrie

#happiness #work #attitude

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy. That is all that matters.”

— Audrey Hepburn

#enjoyment #importance #life

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.”

— Albert Camus

#search #definition #living

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#comparison #thief #joy

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#happiness #gratitude #perspective

“The best portion of a good life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

— William Wordsworth

#kindness #love #nameless

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

— Joseph Roux

#happiness #gratitude #longing

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

— Louisa May Alcott

#aspirations #sunshine #beauty

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

— Albert Camus

#happiness #self-care #boundaries

“Do not worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”

— Bob Marley

#worry #alright #reassurance

“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured but never extinguished.”

— Hannah More

#happiness #hope #resilience

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

— Jim Rohn

#design #present #future

“Some have meat and cannot eat. Some have no meat but can eat. We have meat and we can eat, so let the Lord be thanked.”

— Robert Burns

#gratitude #meal #thankfulness

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

— Nelson Mandela

#return #change #self

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”

— Khalil Gibran

#attitude #life #determination

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#happiness #effort #responsibility

“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#happiness #generosity #joy

“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#butterfly #chase #elude

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#daily #small #pleasures

“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#way #present #being

“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”

— Pythagoras

#satisfaction #doing-well #others

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.”

— Roy T. Bennett

#gratitude #goals #pursuit

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

#paradise #library #imagination

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

— Brene Brown

#courage #vulnerability #showing-up

“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

— John Stuart Mill

#self-examination #paradox #awareness

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#peace #self #inner

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

— Charlie Chaplin

#laughter #day #waste

“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.”

— Jack Kornfield

#living #loving #letting-go

“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”

— Jack Canfield

#action #wanting #asking

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

#infinity #grain #eternity

“The only journey is the one within.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#journey #within #inner

“All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot sit quietly in their own room.”

— Blaise Pascal

#quiet #room #stillness

“The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective.”

— Deepak Chopra

#performance #centered #intuitive

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

— Wayne Dyer

#perspective #change #looking

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

#happiness #kindness #generosity

“The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems.”

— Michael Singer

#inside #letting-go #problems

“Happiness is not the belief that we do not need to change; it is the realization that we can.”

— Shawn Achor

#change #realization #belief

“Happiness is not something that someone can give us or something we find outside of ourselves. It emerges from within.”

— Pema Chodron

#inner #emerging #self

“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#lacking #having #attention

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.”

— Robin Sharma

#purpose #usefulness #compassion

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#suffering #meaning #survival

“He who is contented is rich.”

— Lao Tzu

#happiness #contentment #wealth

“The only constant in life is change.”

— Heraclitus

#change #constant #life

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#happiness #purpose #resilience

“Forty percent of our happiness is within our power to change.”

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

#change #power #percentage

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

— Aristotle

#happiness #purpose #life

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

— Les Brown

#dreams #fears #living

“For what its worth: it is never too late to be whoever you want to be.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#identity #late #freedom

“The fountains mingle with the river, and the rivers with the ocean.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#connection #unity #nature

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#happiness #integrity #harmony

“Discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too.”

— Desmond Tutu

#joy #hardship #tears

“People often say that motivation does not last. Well, neither does bathing. That is why we recommend it daily.”

— Zig Ziglar

#motivation #daily #bathing

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

— Louise Hay

#thoughts #canvas #painting

“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.”

— Helen Keller

#happiness #perspective #new beginnings

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#happiness #thoughts #mindfulness

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#by-product #goal #living

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#heart #essential #invisible

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this is not nice, I do not know what is.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

#noticing #nice #awareness

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#duty #underrate #obligation

“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”

— Paulo Coelho

#timing #action #waiting

“Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

#climbing #peak #experience

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.”

— William Shakespeare

#merry #humor #wisdom

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it is always your choice.”

— Wayne Dyer

#choice #motivation #misery

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

#contentment #desire #gratitude

“Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

#forever #nows #present

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person body or mind is stretched to its limits.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#flow #challenge #stretching

“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends, and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”

— Daniel Gilbert

#family #friends #connection

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

#intelligence #rarity #observation

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

#past #future #present

“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self.”

— Joseph Addison

#happiness #self-acceptance #solitude

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#talent #purpose #using

“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#happiness #peace #moderation

“If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#simplicity #choice #being

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

— Seneca

#present #anxiety #future

“Your personality creates your personal reality.”

— Joe Dispenza

#personality #reality #creation

“At some point in life the beauty of the world is enough.”

— Toni Morrison

#beauty #world #enough

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

— Ayn Rand

#self-value #fight #worth

“People who are satisfied with their lives eventually have even more reason to be satisfied, because happiness leads to desirable outcomes.”

— Ed Diener

#satisfaction #outcomes #upward-spiral

“Happiness does not depend on any external conditions. It is governed by our mental attitude.”

— Dale Carnegie

#mental #attitude #conditions

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#happiness #patience #stillness

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#happiness #mindset #choice

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#love #madness #reason

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

#peace #wild #nature

“Do not cry because it is over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

#smile #memories #gratitude

“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

— Joseph Addison

#happiness #friendship #solitude

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

#potential #late #becoming

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#despair #beginning #life

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#happiness #journey #perspective

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

— John Keats

#beauty #joy #forever

“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year.”

— Horace

#happiness #gratitude #present-moment

“If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”

— Bob Proctor

#visualization #mind #hand

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Laozi

#nature #hurry #accomplishment

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama

#compassion #others #self

“I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health.”

— Voltaire

#decision #health #pragmatic

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

#action #happiness #necessity

“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it is not out there is that it is inside us.”

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

#inner #external #search

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love and gratitude.”

— Denis Waitley

#spiritual #love #gratitude

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#happiness #thoughts #mindset

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

— Rumi

#beauty #love #devotion

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama

#happiness #actions #self

“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

— John Adams

#education #living #making

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

#mind #fire #kindling

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#present #attention #joy

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inferior #consent #self-worth

“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”

— Abraham Maslow

#self-actualization #potential #must

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”

— Persian Proverb

#happiness #gratitude #perspective

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

— Mark Twain

#sanity #happiness #humor

“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#virtue #reward #identity

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Charles Dickens

#blessings #reflection #present

“True happiness arises from the good use of all the powers of the soul applied to good objects.”

— François Fénelon

#happiness #virtue #purpose

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

#beginning #living #daily

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

— Epicurus

#happiness #desire #simplicity

“Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.”

— Robin Sharma

#state #mind #circumstances

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

#winter #summer #inner-strength

“Positive emotions broaden our awareness and open us up to new possibilities.”

— Barbara Fredrickson

#emotions #awareness #possibilities

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

— Stephen Covey

#proactive #choice #unhappiness

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it is the ability to deal with them.”

— Steve Maraboli

#problems #ability #dealing

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

#living #existing #rare

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

#laughter #soul #language

“Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.”

— Jim Rohn

#body #care #living

“Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”

— Walt Whitman

#here #now #present

“Happiness can be synthesized from attention to everyday pleasures.”

— Martin Seligman

#attention #everyday #pleasures

“Joy comes to us in moments. We must not be afraid to live in these moments.”

— Brene Brown

#joy #moments #courage

“Happiness depends upon ourselves more than upon external things.”

— Aristotle

#happiness #self-reliance #inner peace

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”

— Plato

#happiness #self-reliance #independence

“Joy and sorrow are inseparable. Together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#joy #sorrow #inseparable

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

#birth #purpose #important

“Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how.”

— Viktor Frankl

#why #living #endurance

“The pleasant life, the engaged life, and the meaningful life are three different kinds of happiness.”

— Martin Seligman

#pleasant #engaged #meaningful

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

— Albert Schweitzer

#health #memory #humor

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

#stillness #chaos #inner-peace

“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”

— Thomas Fuller

#happiness #perception #self-knowledge

“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”

— Brene Brown

#being #knowing #identity

“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”

— Deepak Chopra

#flow #resistance #acceptance

“The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.”

— Mencius

#childlike #heart #great

“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.”

— Erich Fromm

#relish #things #perception

“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.”

— Carl Jung

#darkness #balance #meaning

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#happiness #pain #boredom

“Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

#belief #faith #abilities

“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#butterfly #pursuit #sitting

“Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#seeds #harvest #planting

“Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.”

— Rhonda Byrne

#mind #attracting #thoughts

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#alive #possible #everything

“It is not what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

— Dale Carnegie

#thinking #perspective #judgment

“Happiness is not a destination, it is a method of traveling through life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

#method #traveling #journey

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

#celebration #praise #abundance

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