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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
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 present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important thing in life is to love and be loved.
Unknown
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
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
The true meaning of success is not about acquiring more wealth or power, but about finding happiness and fulfillment in the journey.
Tony Robbins
Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.
Tony Robbins
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Unknown
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
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 a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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
The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
The greatest happiness you can give another is the purity of your own joy.
Richard Bach
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into actions.
Madame de Stael
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Brene Brown
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan
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
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 makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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 best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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