"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."
-- Margaret Bonnano

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

~Amelia Earhart

"You become the average of the five people you associate with most."
-- Jim Rohn

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
-- Aristotle

"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."

~~ Grace Hansen

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

~~ John Muir

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou

"You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone."
-- Martin Rutte

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
-- Mark Twain

"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."

-- Richard Dumb

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”

~~ Robert Schuller

"Things do not change; we change."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

~ Napoleon Hill

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-- Dr. Albert Ellis, psychologist. As quoted by Marci Shimoff, in her book Happy for No Reason.

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

-- Dale Carnegie

"Life must be lived as play."

~~ Plato

"Three primary ways to overcome old patterns... 1. Focus on the solution, 2. Look for the lesson and the gift 3. Make peace with yourself."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

~~ Thomas Edison

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-- J.M. Barrie

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace."
-- Ajahn Chah as quoted by Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

~~ Storm Jameson

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
-- William Barclay

"Leap and the net will appear."

~ Julia Cameron

"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude... because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
-- Deepak Choprah

"We are all of us richer than we think we are."

~~ Michel de Montaigne

"Don't believe everything you think."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe