"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.” 

- Maya Angelou

"Arguably the single most important factor in your quality of life is what we choose to focus on. This is true both in the short term, in that what you focus on in any given moment determines how you feel in any given moment, and it’s also true in the long term: what you focus on over an extended period of time determines what you do or don’t accomplish and create for your life. So your internal quality of life is based on what you’re focusing on in the moment, and your external quality of life in terms of your circumstances, your relationships, is based on what you focus on consistently over an extended period of time. The single most determining factor in your quality of life, both short term and long term, is what you focus on."

— Hal Elrod, Achieve Your Goals Podcast

"Being satisfied, then, doesn’t mean “settling”. It simply means accepting and taking pleasure in what is. It’s allowing yourself to feel contentment whether or not a thing is complete or “perfect”."

- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits

"Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

- Lao Tzu

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your curiosity is how your instincts get you to pay attention to what your heart really cares about.”

- Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule

“What you notice and what you pay attention to is your experience; it is your life.”

- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“The fact that your beliefs shape your reality is undeniable.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“We postpone our happiness, convincing ourselves that tomorrow will be better than today. Yet the ability to savor the positive experiences in your life is one of the most important ingredients of happiness.”

- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.”

- Buddha

“Happiness, more than anything, is a state of mind, a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside.”

- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“Thought is the most powerful force in the universe. Our thoughts are the controlling factor in what we manifest and create in our lives.”

- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

“The truth is, we don’t see what is there. We see what we are prepared to see, what we are conditioned to see.”

- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

“Our lives are what we pay attention to.”

- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price

“The more attention you pay to the delights in your life, the more delights will reveal themselves to you. It’s almost like tuning in to a frequency on a radio dial.”

- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price

“We become what we think about.”

- From The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

“The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions of the consciousness within.”

- From The Master Key System by Charles Haanel

“When you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life.”

- From Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

“Happiness is not merely contingent on what we do or where we are but on what we choose to perceive.”

- From Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar