Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.
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.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Be that somebody.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Never give up on what you really want to do
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Health is the greatest possession.