Quotes

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

“You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.” — Oprah Winfrey

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ― Maya Angelou

“One of life’s greatest gifts is the fact that life is difficult.  Because in dealing with life’s difficulties, we build invaluable strength.  This strength enables us to successfully fulfill our …

“I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.” ― Heather Anastasiu

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great. …

There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow, There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow, The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, An’ it looks like its …

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway

A sense of humor is needed armor… Joy in ones heart and some laughter on ones lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp …

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi

“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”― Lao Tzu

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

All great changes are preceded by chaos. – Deepak Chopra

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for …

If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain. – unknown    

Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be …

Sleep is the best meditation. – Dalai Lama

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” — Robin Williams

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson

“Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of …

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ― Anne Lamott

“A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” ~Author Unknown “Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which …

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of …

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.  – Terrell Owens

Relax. Let every moment be what it’s going to be. What’s meant to be will come your way, what’s not will fade away.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you …

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy …

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”  ― Vera Nazarian

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston S. Churchill

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. – Garth Brooks, The River

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” ― Mark Twain

Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a …

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states. – Carol Welch

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is. – Mandy Hale

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get ― W.P. Kinsella

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. – Mason Cooley  

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –  Maya Angelou

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” –Dennis Kimbro

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh