“Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.”

- Seneca

“The more attention you pay to the delights in your life, the more delights will reveal themselves to you. It’s almost like tuning in to a frequency on a radio dial.”

- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price

“Happiness is not merely contingent on what we do or where we are but on what we choose to perceive.”

- From Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

- Albert Einstein

“Find the beauty and joy in your daily rituals and you will find beauty and joy in your daily life. To love your habits is to love your days, and to love your days is to love your life."

- James Clear

“If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."

- Warren Buffett

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

- Socrates

“Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out.”

- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden

“The easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.”

- William B. Irvine

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

- Garrison Keillor

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

- Carlos Castaneda

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” 

- W. P. Kinsella

“Be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want.”

- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn

“We already have everything we could ever need to be the happiest we could ever be. It’s simply up to us to remember that truth in each moment. We must realize that our happiness doesn’t come from building wealth or collecting things but from being present to all that we have, all that we are, and all that we can become.“

- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod

“Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way towards a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.”

- From Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

- From The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

“Gratitude is a choice. It can become a positive habit -- but only with discipline. With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create more abundance, prosperity, well-being, and happiness than you ever thought possible. In order to create abundance you must first acknowledge and appreciate the abundance you already have.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Research has proven that practicing gratitude improves our emotional and physical well-being; reduces stress, worry, fear, anxiety and the conditions closely associated with these emotions such as high blood pressure, depression, heart disease, and immune system deficiencies. Gratitude can save and prolong your life.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy