One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
More of anything only makes us more of what we already are. If we are happy, it can bring more happiness. If we are depressed, it will make us more depressed.
At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.
Don't worry about what other people think. Do what makes you happy. Do whatever it takes to make the people in your life happy. Court joy as if it were the air that you needed to breath[e].
Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess...
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!
There is a big difference between being self-ist and being selfish— putting yourself first doesn’t mean you have to put everyone else last.
Most people are fine with fine and okay with okay. If you want to be the best you can be, make sure you’re not.
When you decide to be the best you can be, don’t be surprised if the circle of people you want to spend your time with becomes smaller.
Being the best you can be takes courage. You need to own your decisions and have the courage to see them through.
Unless you have the courage to say ‘no’ to the things you don’t want, it’s hard to say ‘yes’ to the things that you do want.
Having a poverty mentality leaves you focusing on all the things you don’t have, when in reality you probably already have everything you need.
The only way to get an understanding of the true wealth in your life is to acknowledge all the things you have to be grateful for.
