22 secret roads to happiness:
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.