Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
William Arthur Ward
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”
Dalai Lama
“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
Kahlil Gibran
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”
Morris West
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
Milton Erickson
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
Stephen Chbosky
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
Marianne Williamson
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
Albert Einstein
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
G.K. Chesterton
“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
Muhammad Ali
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
Unknown
