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Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Finding Inner Peace

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Building Self-Confidence

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre

Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.
Barrie Davenport

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
Katori Hall

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Pursuing Passions

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives.
Unknown

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
Frida Kahlo

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
Bishop T.D. Jakes

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Nurturing Relationships

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

The best way to find happiness is to help others find theirs.
Tim Fargo

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Letting Go Of Negativity

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.
Iyanla Vanzant

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Practicing Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).
James Baraz

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Finding Purpose And Meaning

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Celebrating Progress And Success

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how you conduct yourself when no one is watching.
Benjamin P. Hardy

Success is not a one-time event. It's a continuous journey.
Tony Robbins

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Embracing Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

The only way to do anything is to do it.
John Steinbeck

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Cultivating Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner

Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Developing Resilience

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Achieving Goals

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Living In The Present Moment

The only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle

The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The present moment is a gift. That's why they call it the present.
Unknown

The art of life is to live in the present moment.
Emmet Fox

The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand

The present moment is perfect. You don't need to change or improve it in any way.
Unknown

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness And Self-Improvement Quotes About Fostering Creativity

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.
Brene Brown

Creativity is not a talent, it's a way of operating.
John Cleese

The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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