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“The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.”
― Bethenny Frankel, A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life

“Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.”
― Bethenny Frankel, A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life

“Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.”
― Bethenny Frankel, A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life

“When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.”
― Marci Shimoff

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“Thoughts are energy, and you can make your world or break your world by your thinking.”
― Susan L. Taylor

“In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change--breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.”
― Susan L. Taylor

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“An eagle earns its honor from the storms it endures.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The only job of a student is to become greater than his master.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The world does not belong to:
one class, one gender,
one race, one tribe,
one religion, nor one nation,
nor one people.
The world belongs to everyone.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When the world throws rocks at you, turn them into diamonds.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Truth changes what you see.
Experience changes what you feel.
Illumination changes what you experience.

Consciousness changes what you see.
Awareness changes what you feel.
Life changes what you experience.

Light changes what you see.
Freedom changes what you feel.
Peace changes what you experience.

Hope changes what you see.
Compassion changes what you feel.
Love changes what you experience.

The past changes what you see.
The present changes what you feel.
The future changes what you experience.

The mind changes what you see.
The heart changes what you feel.
The soul changes what you experience.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo