Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.”
“You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.”
Chinese proverb
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
Hunter S. Thompson
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
Tom Bodett
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.”
Maxime Lagacé
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.”
David Steindl-Rast
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.”
Richard Branson
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
Carrie Underwood
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Diane Ackerman
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
George Washington Burnap
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Roald Dahl
“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.”
Buddha
