Lisa Gardner Quotes

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness is an inside job.

I'm all about cultivating joy in your life.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there is no frustration in your life, life really becomes a bed of roses. Then God is a constant blessing; he goes on raining his grace, his beauty on you.

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.