Happiness Project Toolbox

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."

"You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions."

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

You can’t direct the winds; but you can adjust the sails.

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

You have three names in life: the name you were given at birth, the name that you make for yourself, and the name that everyone knows you by. That last one is the most important, because it is the name that you must work the hardest to change. S

A ship at port is always safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

"Start by making your own home a place where happiness and love abound, through your love for each member of your family and for your neighbour. Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. S

Thoughts produce action. Actions produce habits. Habits produce character. and The habits of the child are, as it were, so many little hammers beating out by slow degrees the character of a man.

continued... comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

“Life is full of problems. Opposition is not only unavoidable, it’s essential. Without opposition, without problems big and small to test our resolve and stimulate our thinking, we would accomplish very little. Muscles do not grow without resistance

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner”

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Hope for enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy.

Maybe giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but, if it doesn't, be content that it grew in yours.

No one said it would be easy, only that it would be worth it.

Life is much like a song. In the beginning, there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Galatians 5:22 "But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives , he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Quoted in "The Last Song")