22 secret roads to happiness:

22 secret roads to happiness:
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1/ You are not a victim. ➡️ You can choose to be happy.

Right here, right now.

"Happiness is a choice." - Naval Ravikant

2/ Nothing happens to you. ➡️ Everything happens FOR you.

"Everything that happens in your life benefits you in some way" - Tony Robbins

3/ Accept happiness, you deserve it.

4/ There is nothing missing.

You are perfect, beautiful and lovable.

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu

5/ Don't search ➡️ be, don't be

"The truth is that you already are what you are seeking." - Adyashanti

6/ There is no road, you are already there.

Paradise is not in the future, paradise is now.

"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way." - Buddha

7/ Stillness & peace

"Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion." - Naval Ravikant

8/ Don't try positivity ➡️ be harmony

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Gandhi

9/ Be less in the gap ➡️ be more in the gain

(from the book The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan)

10/ Give without expecting anything in return.

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

11/ Don't compare ➡️ value things as they are: infinitely valuable

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Theodore Roosevelt

12/ You are not your past ➡️ let your past problems go

"The past has no power over the present moment" - Eckhart Tolle

13/ Don't focus on problems ➡️ focus on solutions ➡️ focus on being ➡️ stop focusing and enjoy life

Enjoy things as they are.

"There ain't much to life, just have to enjoy it!" - from The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor by Nam Heesung

14/ You are not your thoughts ➡️ you are in control of your thoughts

Your thoughts are only a very small part of you.

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." - Eckhart Tolle

15/ Happiness is the space between stimulus and response.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

16/ Don't be reactive ➡️ be proactive (habit 1 out of 7 from Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley

17/ Complexity ➡️ simplicity

"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness." - the Dalai Lama

18/ Feel good now

"The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good." - Tony Robbins

19/ Don't go against the wave ➡️ ride the wave

Nothing is permanent.

Change is inevitable.

Enjoy it.

20/ Love

We are all connected.

Love.

21/ Gratitude

Practice it.

Thank you.

22/ Appreciation

The world you can't describe is bigger than the world you can describe.

Appreciate the unknown, the beauty expressed without words.