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Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Life

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the story you tell yourself that you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Love

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Success

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Success is not about being the best. It's about always getting better.
Behance

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

Success is not just what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do.
Unknown

Success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey.
Richard St. John

Success is not something that happens to you. It's something that happens because of you and the actions you take.
Grant Cardone

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Mindfulness

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Creativity

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.
Brene Brown

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker

Creativity is not a talent, it's a way of operating.
John Cleese

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

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

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Finding Joy

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Gratitude

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

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong

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 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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Motivation

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Positivity

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

The only way to do something you're afraid of is to do it afraid.
Unknown

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Friendship

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
Doug Larson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Self-Improvement

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Happiness And Inspiration Quotes About Inner Peace

The pursuit of inner peace is more important than the search for happiness or success.
Unknown

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Wayne Dyer

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
James Allen

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky

The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.
Naval Ravikant

The only way to find true happiness is to give it to others.
Unknown

The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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