Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it will be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

Aloha is free.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.