Gratitude

“Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.”

Christian D. Larson

Your Forces and How to Use Them

“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best.”

Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

Catherine Ponder

The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Today is life—the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”

Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'”

Earl Nightingale

The Strangest Secret

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

Joseph Campbell

Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion

“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much.”

Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking

“I will greet this day with love in my heart.”

Og Mandino

The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Appreciation and self-love are the most important aspects you could ever nurture.”

Esther Hicks

Ask and It Is Given

“The basis of life is freedom, and the result of life is expansion—but the purpose of your life is joy.”

Esther Hicks

Ask and It Is Given

“Gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership.”

Joe Dispenza

You Are the Placebo

“You don't need to have anything else in order to be happy right now. You can choose to be happy.”

Joe Vitale

The Attractor Factor

“Living a life that you love and loving the life that you are living is the truest demonstration of abundance.”

Lisa Nichols

Abundance Now

“The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”

Martin Seligman

Authentic Happiness

“There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.”

Michael Neill

The Inside-Out Revolution

“If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.”

Michael Neill

You Can Have What You Want

“Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for.”

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

“Gratitude is a knowing awareness that we are the recipients of goodness.”

Robert Emmons

Thanks!

“I believe that gratitude is one of the few attitudes that can measurably change lives.”

Robert Emmons

Thanks!

“Only 25 percent of job successes are predicted by IQ, while 75 percent are predicted by your optimism levels, your social support, and your ability to see stress as a challenge instead of a threat.”

Shawn Achor

The Happiness Advantage

“Abundance can be destructive because it abstracts the value of things. The more we have, the less we seem to value what we've got.”

Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last

“Research shows that 50% of the differences among people's happiness levels can be explained by their genetic set points, 10% by differences in their life circumstances, and a startling 40% by their intentional activities.”

Sonja Lyubomirsky

The How of Happiness

“Have big goals—but don't tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them.”

Vishen Lakhiani

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, a trusted friend the best relative, liberation the greatest bliss.”

Buddha

Dhammapada, Ch. 15, v. 204 (trans. Eknath Easwaran)

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

Epictetus

Discourses

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, far the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

Epicurus

Principal Doctrines, XXVII

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”

Epicurus

Vatican Sayings, 68

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 7.67

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 101

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 77