The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
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
Further reading:
7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Happiness Depends upon Ourselves
Choosing Happiness
Choose Joy Anyway
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Further reading:
Be Simply Yourself
Ignore Your Critics
Making Dreams Come True
Confidence and Action
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others.
Devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive one another.
- Colossians 3:12
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Further reading:
Love Your Neighbor
Your Legacy - Making a Difference
Working Toward a Better World
Our Grandchildren
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Step Up to the Plate
When is Your Best Good Enough?
Play to win, but be a good loser
The Futility of Regret
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm
People are never more insecure than when they become
obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
- Norman Cousins
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Further reading:
How to Stop Worrying
Welcome the Unknown
The Edge of All We Know
Life: Mystery and Riddle
