"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." Soren Kierkegaard
"Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got." Sue Knight
"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover." Shakti Gawain
"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." Shari R. Barr
"View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't?" Victor Frankl
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs--even though checkered by failure--than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time...serenity, that nothing is." Thomas Szasz
"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them." Marcus Aurelius
"Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it." J. Petit Senn
"To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek." Alan Cohen
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." John Milton
"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy." Albert Clarke
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." Betty Smith
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." Oprah Winfrey