Three small rules for living a happy life
1. Start each day with a grateful heart.
2. Focus on the positive aspects of every person you encounter.
3. End each day with a grateful heart.
2. Focus on the positive aspects of every person you encounter.
3. End each day with a grateful heart.
You Were Born With A Calling
Each person is born with a calling. It is your task to discover what that calling is and find a way to make that calling a reality.
Put Time to Good Use
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Courage: Despair and Hope
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, all to gain.
Personal Responsibility
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.
Message
My life is my message.
Infinite Possibilities
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
The Little Things
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.
The Time is Now
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
The Positive Thinker
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Power to Choose
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Different Roads
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Focus
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
A Burning Desire
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Smile
If you are not using your smile, you're like someone with a million dollars in the bank and no check book.
Believe in Yourself
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Get Up
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Positive Talk
Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.
A New Day
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.
Take the Risk!
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Believe
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be.
Keep Your Cool
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Face Your Fears
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Touch the Silence
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Achievement
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Patience
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Aim High
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
Claim Yourself
You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours.
Go Deep
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is bedrock of truth, however hard.
Secret of a Healthy Life
Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy and understanding.
Positive Mental Attitude
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Get started now
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Change
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
