Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
Martha Washington
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”
Rose Lane
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx
“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Epicurus
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
William Feather
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
John Henry Jowett
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
Confucius
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
Proverb
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
Andy Rooney
“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
Unknown
