Happiness is the Choice to be Happy in This Moment

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety.
It is a long succession of little decisions
simply to be happy in the moment.
- J. Donald Walters

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi

You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
Happiness is the Choice to be Happy in This Moment
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

One can flow harmoniously with the River of Life -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Release the Struggle

A Happy Life

The Secret of Happiness

The River of Life
   

Rekindle the Light

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Be thankful to those who have offered us challenges, rather than easy answers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation: I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.

Further reading:

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Appreciating Friends

Giving Love and Comfort
    

Boldly Paint Your Life

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

YOU make a difference to the world.
Act on your dreams today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho

I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Be Curious - Be Adventurous

The Whole Leap

Choose to Love Life
    

The Enemy Within

We carry our worst enemies within us.
- Charles Spurgeon

Life is way too short to spend another day at war with yourself.
- Anonymous

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Today's affirmation:
I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Stilling Your Mind

Creating Peace Within Yourself

Our Own Worst Enemy

Managing Your Wayward Mind
     

Honor Your Commitments

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we make to ourselves are the ones
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Alan K. Simpson

Honor your commitments with integrity.
- Les Brown

First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

Today's exercise:
Consider how much you do or do not value your promises to yourself.
Do you take such promises seriously? Break them easily?
Make new promises as circumstances change?

Further reading: Commitment

The Habit of Making Excuses

Character

What You Know Is Right