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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius
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
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
Katori Hall
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives.
Unknown
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
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
Bishop T.D. Jakes
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The best way to find happiness is to help others find theirs.
Tim Fargo
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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 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
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
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
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
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 a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how you conduct yourself when no one is watching.
Benjamin P. Hardy
Success is not a one-time event. It's a continuous journey.
Tony Robbins
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
The only way to do anything is to do it.
John Steinbeck
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 a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
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 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 quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.
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 stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
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 only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The present moment is a gift. That's why they call it the present.
Unknown
The art of life is to live in the present moment.
Emmet Fox
The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand
The present moment is perfect. You don't need to change or improve it in any way.
Unknown
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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 not a talent, it's a way of operating.
John Cleese
The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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