TLI Staff
New Delhi: Life is uncertain and things often don’t happen the way you expect them to. Your mind is often tempted to delve deep into the ocean of self-pity and sorrow. But what’s difficult is to choose happiness and peace everytime life throws a challenge at you.
Happiness is a conscious choice you make and has the power to transform your life magically. Happiness attracts happiness and bit by bit you weave a more fulfilling life around you and the challenges will not bother you anymore if you are able to understand their temporary nature.
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Here are 15 quotes that will inspire you to choose happiness over rest of the things:
1. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
3. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
4. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
5. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama XIV
7. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
– Gabriel García Márquez
8. “You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.”
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium
9. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
– W. P. Kinsella
10. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
– Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
11. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
– Bette Midler
12. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand
13. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
– Steve Maraboli
14. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
– Roy T. Bennett
15. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
– Mark Twain
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