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Quotes on Happiness/Attitude

"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed."
- Corita Kent

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim

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

"The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Reach for the feeling that matches the desire that you have given birth to."
- Abraham-Hicks

"We make our decisions and then our decisions turn around and make us."
- R.W. Boreham

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
- H. Jackson Browne

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

You cannot always control circumstances. But you can control your own thoughts.
- Charles E. Popplestone

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.
- James Allen

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
- Epictetus

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
- J. Donald Walters

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
- Neal Maxwell

A man cannot directly chose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
- James Allen

"Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future."
- Debbie Ford

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
- Henry Ward Beeche

"Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
- Alexander Woollcott

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies."
- Maya Angelou

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscaptes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
- Frank A. Clark

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
- Helen Keller

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
- Lauren Bacall

"You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true."
- Sidney Madwed

"One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever."
- Robert Holden

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it . Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it."
- Mother Teresa

"The man who views the world at fifty, the same as he did at twenty, has wasted thirty years of his life."
- Muhammed Ali

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams..."
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
- Lou Holtz

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."
- The Talmud