Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just surrounded with love, when I'm with my family and we're all having a wonderful time together. There's nothing greater than your family surrounding you.

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

I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Happiness is a privilege.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Gratitude is the antidote to fear.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

Learn how to feel joy.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.