Happy with Myself

Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one’s goals.
– David Myers and Ed Diener

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existance”
– Aristotle

“Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.”
– Claudian

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same”.

Anne Frank

“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.”
– Jean Shinoda Bolen

“When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it’s a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, ‘The real teacher is within you.’ Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart.”
– Sara Paddison

“Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.”
– Deepak Chopra

“The light which man has discovered within himself makes him more aware of the dark; through the good which attracts him, he sees the evil which is the line of least resistance; the activity leading to pain simultaneously permits him to visualize the contrasting pleasure, and thus he experiences something of both hell and heaven.”

– Aart Jurriaanse

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want.”
– Margaret Young

“The first duty of love is to listen.”
– Paul Tillich

“With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.”
– Catherine de Hueck Doherty

“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”
– James Hollis