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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
The greatest gift you can give someone is your gratitude and love.
Brian Tracy
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
The more grateful we are, the more happiness we receive.
Unknown
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge.
James Allen
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.
Deepak Chopra
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.
Carlos Barrios
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Buddha
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible.
Paul Klee
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
Art is the language of the soul.
Martha Graham
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The groundwork for all happiness is good health.
Leigh Hunt
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
B.K.S. Iyengar
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The more you give, the more you get.
Unknown
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
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