Its All in Your Head Happiness doesnt come from actions, it comes from attitudes.

. The secrets to happiness are all in your head. We confuse pleasure with happiness. The former is sensual and temporary, the latter is spiritual and permanent. You have the tools to be happy today. All it takes is changing your attitudes toward yourself and your place in the world. The secrets are also already in your head, since theyre eternal truths weve learned and either ignored or forgotten. Instead of thinking ourselves to unhappiness by living out harmful attitudes, we can think ourselves to happiness by adopting healthy attitudes. Dont compare yourself to others. Youre just where youre supposed to be. Dont be pessimistic about the future. Things get better. Stop being your own worst enemy: Own your success. Asking for help isnt a sign of weakness: You dont have to go it alone. Dont wait for the best or right time: Theres no time like now, so take the action. You dont need the best: Your best is enough. Stop looking backward in anger and regret: The past is past. Stop living in the future: Tomorrow is too late. True happiness comes not from material, or external, factors,but from psychological, or internal, factors. Happiness is a mental, not a physical, state Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object. HERMANN HESSE The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus (Part of our problem today, one reason we so readily look for happiness through materialism, is that we confuse pleasure with happiness. The former is a sensual feeling, the latter is spiritual. The secrets to happiness are all in your head, not just because theyre attitudes, but because theyre truths we learned at some point in our lives but have either overlooked or forgotten. I believe in God. That belief took root in my head, heart, and soul when I realized I wasnt God. The more science learns about how our brains work, the more we realize just how infinitely complex and unique we are. The issue isnt whether or not someone has a right to be unhappy about themselves or their situation. The issue is that no one should be comparing themselves to others. The envious person dies not once, but as often as his rival lives in applause. Baltasar Gracin Base decisions on your life, the life you want to lead, not someone elses life or the life others think you should lead.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldnt wish to be. Jean Rostand There is a crack in everything God made, and not least of all, in each one of us. ( Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Time heals grief and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. Blaise Pascal You can choose to ride the positive river flowing through life or you can choose to fight the current and struggle to stay in place. View the passage of time positively and youll even make death a non-event; youll spend your life actually living rather than just surviving We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. Roderick Thorp

If youre like most of us, you do things to yourself youd never let others get away with and think things about yourself youd never let others say without challenge. (

(We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We need to own our successes as well as our failures. We need to be able to say thank you when we receive a compliment, just as easily as we apologize for a failing