“You’re not supposed to optimize for money. You’re supposed to optimize for happiness.”
– Mr. Money Mustache, Pete Adeney
“You’re not supposed to optimize for money. You’re supposed to optimize for happiness.”
– Mr. Money Mustache, Pete Adeney
” Don’t let others define you by your paid employment: If you find a way to live the Good Life and you are giving to the world and having a blast, the joke is on them.”
~Colin Beavan, How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World
“The only way to love a person is not, as the stereotyped Christian notion is, to coddle them and bring them soup when they are sick, but by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.”
~Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.”
~John C. Maxwell
“While I love goal-setting and bucket lists, you really only need to ask yourself one question to change the trajectory of your life: How can I solve the one problem in my life that keeps resurfacing?”
~Sandra Bienkowski’s The One Question That Can Change Your Life – mindbodygreen.com
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
~Blaise Pascal
“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
– John Lennon
“If money is to enhance your happiness, it must be used to support aspects of life that themselves bring happiness to you.”
-Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.”
-George Burns