"If I feel inferior, I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain, I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty, I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent, I will remember past success. If I feel insignificant, I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions."
-- John Paul Carinci
"The third pillar for building a happier life is meaningful work. Hundreds of studies have shown that job satisfaction and life satisfaction are positively related, and causal: liking your job causes you to be happier all around. Engaging in work with your whole heart is one of the best ways to enjoy your days, get satisfaction from your accomplishments, and see meaning in your efforts. Work, at its best, is “love made visible,” in the elegant words of the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran."
-- Arthur C. Brooks
"If you have lost track of what your dreams are, not just in work but in life itself, think back to when you were a child. A time when you believed that anything was possible. What did you dream of then? What are you most passionate about and happiest doing in your life right now? Write down your answers and look at them carefully. Ask yourself if there’s a job out there somewhere that would involve doing the things that you love. You might even find a way of creating a job for yourself that involves all the things you love."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Our mental health defence players provide the foundations of good health. When we nurture them daily they pay us back with interest."
-- Julie Smith
"When we choose to let go of the past, with all the resentment, shame, and memories of abuse it brings, we are free to live each day with confidence and hope. Choosing to let go is not the same as denying what may have happened, nor does it suggest it won’t take time and effort to let it go in a healthy way. We won’t forget, but we can forgive. In releasing the past, we release ourselves. When we forgive, the person who is most impacted is ourselves."
-- John F. Westfall
"So a person may consciously want to be happy, healthy, or free, but the experience of hosting 20 years of suffering and the repeated cycling of those chemicals of pain and pity have subconsciously conditioned the body to be in a habitual state. We live by habit when we’re no longer aware of what we’re thinking, doing, or feeling; we become unconscious. The greatest habit we must break is the habit of being ourselves."
-- Dr. Joe Dispenza
"Your life begins to open up as you relax into the rhythm. Each problem that comes your way will no longer feel like such a large speed bump. You will begin to focus more on your quality of life and be present in the moment. This can happen when we focus on the big picture. Think of yourself as a Hollywood movie director; just as a director has to focus on the grand scheme of things, the big picture is the overall storyline of the movie, not just one scene. The big-picture plan for your life is all about taking a step back and seeing the bigger picture at play. You are right where you need to be in order to get to where you want to go. To focus on what’s not working can hinder your happiness."
-- Shannon Kaiser
"To master your motivation, create choice, connection, and competence, which leads to the optimal motivation you need for achieving your goals."
-- Susan Fowler
"Failure is not the end of something but the beginning of something else. I’ve spent my life building things, failing, figuring out the lessons from the failure and then doing something slightly (or completely) different to see if the outcome is different or the same. If the outcome is the same – another failure – then I tweak it again."
-- Nicholas Haralambous
"Where you and your children are in your lives matters, too. Just as you can’t keep delaying ski trips because there is a minimum level of basic health you need in order to go skiing, you can’t keep delaying time with your six-year-old, because eventually your child won’t be six. Or seven. Or a child. The fact that those opportunities gradually disappear should cause you to reevaluate how much money you’d be willing to give up to have those experiences."
-- Bill Perkins
