Happiness comes more easily when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else’s approval.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet them again on your way back down.
When other people treat you poorly, walk away, smile and keep being YOU. Don’t ever let someone else’s bitterness change the person you are.
One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don’t have to like everyone, everyone doesn’t have to like us, and that’s OK.
Happiness and success is all about spending your life in your own way. Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.
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You can’t always wait for the perfect moment. Sometimes you must dare to do it because life is too short to regret and wonder what could have been.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Great challenges make life interesting; overcoming them makes life meaningful. It’s how you deal with failure that determines your happiness and success.
Any fool can be happy when times are good. It takes a strong soul with real heart to develop smiles out of situations that make us weep.
No matter how long it takes, it will get better. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Whatever you do, don’t get stuck on the one thing that ruins your day. Smile and be grateful. Life is too short to waste on negativity.
Do not dwell so much on creating your perfect life that you forget to live.
You can’t base your idea of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and expectations.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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.
No amount of money will make you happy if you aren’t happy with yourself.
Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.
Happiness comes more easily when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else’s approval.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
When someone says, “You’ve changed,” it’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes it just means you stopped living your life their way.
Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
Look for something positive about this moment. Even if you have to look a little harder than usual, it still exists.
Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are. It could be so much worse.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Work to create a life that feels right to YOU, not one that looks right to everyone else.
