Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Themes
Happiness
Joy, contentment, and their expensive substitutes.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.