Question from a reader: WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO IN LIFE? AND WHY?
My Answer: I don't know that I have chosen a single personal motto. The "why" is that we can't control what happens to us, but we can control how we react - and that choice creates all our happiness or unhappiness.
The following mottos/quotes all reflect the idea that happiness is a matter of choice, rather than external conditions.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Choose the World You See, and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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Further reading: 7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Attitude Quotes
Happiness Quotes
Quotes about Choice
Quotes to Live By
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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