“Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
As quoted in Seriously Funny (2009), by G. Nachman, p. 606
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
As quoted in Plenty of Time to Sleep When You're Dead : A Compilation of Life-changing Quotes (2006) by Richard Caridi
As quoted in Sprituality in a Materialistic World (2008) by Leslie Klein
Variant: Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
“Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 101
“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer
Source: The Judgment
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Objecting to the placing of observables at the heart of the new quantum mechanics, during Heisenberg's 1926 lecture at Berlin; related by Heisenberg, quoted in Unification of Fundamental Forces (1990) by Abdus Salam ISBN 0521371406
1920s
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential