WORD ON HAPPINESS

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." James Dean

"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness." Frank Tyger

"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want." Alan Cohen

"Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever." Peter Hagerty

"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

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." David Allen

"We forge the chains we wear in life." Charles Dickens

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." Lao Tzu

"Everything is a gift of the universe--even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment." Ken Keyes Jr.

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Richard Bach

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie

"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." Chinese
Proverb
"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book, and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." Fernandez de Andrada

"You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy." Alan Cohen

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them." Bernard M. Baruch

"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect." Alain De Botton

"If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the problem." Stephen Covey

"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

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

"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life." Germaine Greer

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." Greg Anderson

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Buddha

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be." Anne Frank