" Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. "

- Chinese Proverb

" If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. "

- Andrew Carnegie

" If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. "

- Lao Tzu

" Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

- Abraham Lincoln

" Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "

- Marcel Proust

" The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. "

- Andre Maurois

" If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. "

- Andy Rooney

" I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. "

- Groucho Marx

" Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. "

- Albert Schweitzer

" The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. "

- James Oppenheim

" I’d far rather be happy than right any day. "

- Douglas Adams

" Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. "

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

" Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "

- Theodore Roosevelt

" If you can dream it, you can do it. "

- Walt Disney

" Do the best you can. No one can do more than that. "

- John Wooden

" If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy. "

- Mark Cuban

" Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. "

- Les Brown

" is never too late to be what you might have been. "

- George Eliot

" Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. "

- Chris Grosser

" Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. "

- Chris Grosser