Zan On Happiness: Choose Happiness!

To Consider:

• We are not alone on this journey
• Laughter is a vacation for the Soul
• Gratitude and appreciation are the secret to a happy life
• Give what you want to get out of life
• All People just want to be loved, valued and appreciated
• Forgiveness is personal emancipation
• Question thoughts that give you pain
• Choose optimism, hope, peace and joy just because it will give you the happiness you crave
• What you focus on will become your life
• Take responsibility for everything that happens in your life and it will give you the power to change it
• The most important thing we can do to forge peace in the world is to become a peaceful person
• Compassion towards yourself and others is transformative
• Surround yourself with the things that bring you joy and then let your joy rise to the top

Quote Library:

"The part of you that is unhampered by illusion—the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility—is waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home." - Martha Beck

"Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere." - A Course In Miracles

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhart

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Proust

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" - Rumi

"I take charge of my mood and my happiness by guiding my mind consciously." - Jacob Glass (12.6.10 post)

"We can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible mind." - Marianne Williamson (10.28.10 post)

"To thine own self be true." - Sakespeare (5.23.10 post)

"Ask for what makes you come alive and do that." - Howard Thurman

"There exists only the present instant...a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence." - Meister Eckhart

"Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

"When we are aware that each moment of each day, each gesture and step we take, is truly mystical and full of wonder, we will live our lives with greater thought and care. We will also have greater respect and appreciation for the lives of others." - Daisaku Ikeda (4.13.10 post)

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." -H. G. Wells (2.23.10 post)

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." - Mahatma Gandhi (1.16.10 post)

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James (12.29.09 post)

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Anonymous

"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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie (11.24.09 post)

“Feed a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Show a man that fish is neither the problem nor the answer and you set him free forever.” Jacob Glass (11.09.09 post)

"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts." William Hazlitt (10.21.09 post)

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr. (10.06.09 post)

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies freedom and power to choose our response, In our response lies our growth and freedom. Victor Frankl, Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor. (9.29.09 post)

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” Dale Carnegie (9.22.09 post)

"People who live in the now, those people make things happen." Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer (9.7 & 15.09 post)

"All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this only good will come. I am safe." Louise Hay (8.31.09 post)

“You can't change your past, and your future has not happened. Focus your energy on enjoying the moment you are living right now.” Rod Williams (8.25.09 post)

"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without." Henry Miller (8.25.09 post)

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in every moment.” Thoreau (8.19.09 post)

“The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” William James (8.12.09 post)

“What you think and what you believe is what will come true for you. Your thoughts create your life; it’s that simple, and when we get that, we can make enormous changes.” Louise Hay (8.4.09 post)

“Oh God, Help me to believe the truth about myself no matter how beautiful it is.” Macrina Wiederkehr (7.27.09 post)

"If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would be enough.” Meister Eckhart (7.20.09 post)

"Happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance and in inverse proportion to your expectations." Michael J. Fox

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." Francesca Reigler (8.12.09 post)

“You are the playwright of your own victory.” Daisaku Ikeda (8.4.09 post)

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson (7.6.09 post)

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but in the moments that take our breath away.” Unknown (7.27.09 post)

"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 (7.20.09 post)

"Feel Happy Now. Happiness is the process of creating and experiencing good feelings in your body and mind, moment by moment by moment." Michael Neill (7.13.09 post)

"Think possibilities rather than probabilities today. Remember that "lots can happen" and you do not need to know how. As you assume the best today you are aligning yourself with the Force that holds galaxies in place." Jacob Glass (7.06.09 post)

"A happy life is just a string of happy moments..." Abraham (6.29.09 post)

“The world is going to be changed by joy and pleasure, not pain, not fear.” Christiane Northrup, MD (6.29.09 post)

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that." Howard Thurman (6.22.09 post)

“Reduce your workload by 30% and increase your fun load by 30% and you will increase your revenues by 100%. And you will increase your productivity by 10,000%. (If there could be such a percentage.) More fun, less struggle -- more results on all fronts. Abraham (6.22.09 post)

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