Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”
Ricky Gervais
“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
Douglas Adams
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
Stephen Hawking
“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”
Denis Waitley
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Dale Carnegie
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell
“Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s drama, repeat these word: Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
Polish Proverb
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.”
Roy Orbison
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”
Cullen Hightower
“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
Chris Rock
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
George Burns
“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
Parker Palmer
