“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.”

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Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)

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Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 101

“Every human being has to find their own peace. Peace is within you and me. When you and I can experience who we really are, what life is, and what we are doing here, that’s the day peace will begin in this world.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Dublin, Eire, October 7, 1981
1980s

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

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“The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.”

Justin Timberlake (1981) American singer and actor

“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Let Me be a Woman

“You can only build a life from what is real. Unless you know and admit to what you really think, really feel, really want, really need and actually do, you are working with illusion and you are going nowhere.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“You can’t just decide to be happy.”

“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

“If you want to innovate at scale, you have to get really clear about your values. What do you really want in your company? What is really important to you?”

Marc Benioff (1964) American businessman

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“Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

Words of Wisdom (2010)

“To [aunt] Marie Hill,
Dearest
Why do you tempt me? I really cannot. It's impossible! Be happy? The only thought I have in my mind is to immerse myself in my art, to merge completely with it until I can begin to express what I really feel – and after that to be consumed even more by it. Even if I wanted to, I could not leave here [Worpswede]… I want to live here. I want to 'live' – and develop further as a person and as an artist… Can you understand this? I think you can. And do you approve? I hope so. In any case, I can't do any different..”

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) German artist

In a letter to her aunt Mary Hill, from Worpswede, June 1899; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Letters and Journals, ed: Günther Busch & Lotten von Reinken; (transl, A. Wensinger & C. Hoey; Taplinger); Publishing Company, New York, 1983, p. 135
1899

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.”

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