“You’re not supposed to optimize for money. You’re supposed to optimize for happiness.”
– Mr. Money Mustache, Pete Adeney
inspirational quotes
Quote: The Joke Is On Them
” 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
Quote: Keep the Poet Alive
“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
Quote: Growth vs. Security
“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
Friday’s Fortune: Be Present
Quote: The One Question That Can Change Your Life
“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
Quote: Pascal on The Heart
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
~Blaise Pascal
Quote: John Lennon on Happiness
“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
Quote: Sometimes money CAN buy happiness…
“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
Quote: George Burns on Failure
“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.”
-George Burns
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