The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel JohnsonWhen you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
Eckhart TolleToo many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Richard BransonHappiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace ThackerayBe more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThere is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
LeBron JamesI am two with nature.
Woody AllenThere are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYour joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
Joyce MeyerAs long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
ChanakyaIn Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
Thich Nhat HanhA woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George EliotI don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian EnoWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
AristotleI feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.
Angelina JolieThe joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.
Sunil ChhetriA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
BuddhaModeration is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
Jimmy BuffettSome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeConfine yourself to the present.
Marcus AureliusGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.
Conor McGregorTo affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David ThoreauLaughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
Kevin HartPeace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
BuddhaWhen it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.
Michelle ObamaTo realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao TzuEvery breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Thich Nhat Hanh‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.
Jordan PetersonI want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.
Sunil ChhetriNever let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea BallouThe learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeA man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar WildeI intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven WrightThere is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas JeffersonKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeI love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
Angelina JolieSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph AddisonIf you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.
Joyce MeyerHappiness is the cessation of suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhA man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert SchweitzerYou can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody AllenIt is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel JohnsonHuman beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
Kurt VonnegutAnd later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.
Dave GrohlI wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘
Jim CarreyYou can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen KingMost humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Eckhart TolleIf I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin LutherUntil you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon HillWhat the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
AristotleIt’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.
Haruki MurakamiAs your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
Taylor SwiftMan never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander PopeTake care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim RohnI can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
Ariana GrandeRemember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale CarnegieThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison