Tony Finau Quotes

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.

If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.

It's important to keep yourself grounded, and my friends and family make sure of that.

I'm very grateful, first of all, for my friends and my family because they keep me grounded, and they make sure I'm taking care of myself and that I'm keeping my sanity about me.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

I've gotten to do some really amazing things, gone to some really amazing places, and just have some really unique experiences. And if I have one regret looking back it's that - not a regret even, because I think that's kind of labeling depression as something you can control - but I just wish I would have been able to enjoy it more fully.

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.