Paulo Coelho on Taking Risks and Embracing Life’s Magic Moments
“Every day, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”
Gisele Bündchen on Self-Awareness, Challenging Your Thoughts and Paying Attention to Your Inner Voice
“It’s up to all of us to capture time, to give it meaning, and to be present and appreciative for every moment we’re alive.”
Anne Lamott on Joy, Contentment and the Value We Have Within
“To pay close attention to and mostly accept your life, inside and out and around your body, is to be halfway home.”
Part I: The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Four Qualities of the Mind that Lead to Joyful Living
“The ultimate source of happiness is within us. Not money, not power, not status…outward attainment will not bring real inner joyfulness. We must look inside.”
Saint Augustine on the Happy Life and Finding Joy
“The happy life is this – to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it and there is no other.”
10 Essential Truths from C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Sometimes to Move Forward, We Have to Go Backward
“My friends, all I’m trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind.”