1. “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” ― Abraham Maslow
2. “As for the future, it remains unwritten. Anything can happen, and often we are wrong. The best we can do with the future is to prepare and savor the possibilities of what can be done in the present.” ― Todd Kashdan
3. “Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.” ― Sonja Lyubomirsky
4. “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” ― Harry Truman
5. “We know what we are but not what we may be.” — Shakespeare
6. “Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.” ― Barbara L. Fredrickson
7. “The brain is wider than the sky.” — Emily Dickinson
8. “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.” ― Daniel Kahneman
9. “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work.” — Thomas Edison
10. “Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.” ― Jonathan Haidt
11. “When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything.” –Todd Kashdan
12. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” ― Carl Rogers
13. “If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” ― Jean Piaget
14. “Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ― Albert Einstein
15. “Happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency — the currency by which we take the measure of our lives.” ― Tal Ben-Shahar
16. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor Frankl
17. “Once you start making the effort to “wake yourself up” – that is, be more mindful in your activities – you suddenly start appreciating life.” ― Robert Biswas-Diener
18. “Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.” ― Brené Brown
19. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ― Louisa May Alcott
20. “When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.” ― Carl Rogers
21. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” ― Lucille Ball
22. “Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” ― Edward de Bono
23. “Everything can be taken from a man, but the last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances.” ― Viktor Frankl
24. “Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance.” ― Scott Barry Kaufmann
25. “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
26. “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
27. “Compassion is one of the few things we can practice that will bring…happiness to our lives.” ― Dalai Lama
28. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” ― Lou Holtz
29. “If positive psychology teaches us anything, it is that all of us are a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. No one has it all, and no one lacks it all.” ― Christopher Peterson
30. “Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu
31. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” ― Brian Tracy
32. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.” ― Sigmund Freud
33. “For happy people, time is ‘filled and planned’. For unhappy people time is unfilled, open, and uncommitted; they postpone things and are inefficient.” ― Michael Argyle
34. “While some pain is probably inevitable in all relationships, successful couples are usually the ones who are able to forgive.” ― Ilona Boniwell
35. “The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.—Daniel Gilbert
36. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” ― Harry F. Banks
37. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
38. “When we encounter an unexpected challenge of a threat, the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.” ― Shawn Achor
39. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” ― Andy Rooney
40. “It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.― Ellen J. Langer
41. “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” ― Virginia Satir
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