Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Marcus Aurelius

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Marcus Aurelius

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Marcus Aurelius

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Marcus Aurelius

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Marcus Aurelius

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Marcus Aurelius

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

Marcus Aurelius

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Thomas a Kempis

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

Thomas a Kempis

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Thomas A. Edison

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

Sharon Salzberg

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

Sharon Salzberg

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

Sharon Salzberg

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

Swami Vivekananda

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Tony Robbins

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

Tony Robbins

Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

Tony Robbins

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Tony Robbins

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

Tony Robbins

Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

Robert Anthony

Go after what you want, but enjoy the trip.

Robert Adams

Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.

Robert A. Heinlein

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pu

Ring Lardner

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Thomas Troward

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Thomas Traherne

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.