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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 our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
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 having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
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 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
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
Success is not the destination, but the journey. Happiness is found not in the endgame, but in the process.
Unknown
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The best way to find happiness is to not search for it outside, but rather, to find it within yourself.
Unknown
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Unknown
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 makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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 attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
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 intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not about getting what you want all the time. It's about loving what you have and being grateful for it.
Unknown
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 discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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 best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
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
The purpose of our existence is not just to consume resources. We are here to make a positive difference to the world.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
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 purpose of life is 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 only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Bear Grylls
The greatest gift of life is freedom, and with freedom comes responsibility.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is not something you find, it's something you create.
Unknown
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Seth Godin
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Barack Obama
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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 do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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