"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving." Dan Millman
"The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive." Rachel England
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." Bernard Meltzer
"Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Charles Dickens
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." Carl Jung
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." Marcus Aurelius
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." Helen Keller
"Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have." Unknown
"True happiness...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self." Joseph Addison
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." Ayn Rand
"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." William Adams
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie
"We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future." Lester Levinson
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money." Sam Rosen
"Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing...just expressed differently." Robert McPhillips
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Carl Jung
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr
"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have." Abraham Lincoln
"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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie
"There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them." Dr. Wayne Dyer
"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end--it's not the final curtain--it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing." Ralph Lauren
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." Deepak Chopra
"Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?" Bill Walton If you can, you take the most important step towards becoming a great leader.
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." Archibald McLeish
"Once you do something you love, you never have to work again." Willie Hill
"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it." Shakti Gawain
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." Margaret Chase Smith
"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." Nathaniel Branden
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." Soren Kierkegaard
"Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got." Sue Knight
"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover." Shakti Gawain
"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them." Marcus Aurelius
"Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it." J. Petit Senn
"To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek." Alan Cohen
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." John Milton
"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy." Albert Clarke
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." Betty Smith
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." Oprah Winfrey
"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." Shari R. Barr
"View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't?" Victor Frankl
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs--even though checkered by failure--than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time...serenity, that nothing is." Thomas Szasz
I’m a simple person who hides a thousand feelings behind the happiest smile.
Every smile makes you a day younger.
A smile takes a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.
I wore a pretty thing today – SMILE
Be someone else’s sunshine. Be the reason someone smiles today.