“Live accordingly … success isn't something you have, it's something you do.”

“Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.”

Jane Porter (1776–1850) Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure

“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

“Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“[Freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.”

Kurt Vonnegut book Hocus Pocus

“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”

Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States

“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

“I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement