“Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 100 of 709
“A good example is the best sermon.”
“Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.”
“Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”
“Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.”
“There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.”
“The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.”
“We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.”
“The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.”
“Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.”
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
“No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.”
“Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.”
“Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.”
“I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment”
“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.”
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
“Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.”
“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.”