“New research in psychology and neuroscience shows that it works the other way around: We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive."

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"Just because the sky is cloudy doesn’t mean there’s no sun. Trust that things turn out."

- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

“Expecting positive outcomes actually makes them more likely to arise.”

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it."

- Marcia Wieder

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

- Oprah Winfrey

“Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured. Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual. Be brave, set no limits on the workings of your imagination. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. You will never be the same.”

- Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

"Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow."

- Seth Godin

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“The enemy of joy, happiness, and even success is worry.”

- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller

“More than any other change, ending your habit of worrying will create the single biggest positive impact in your life.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“Like giving into excuses, when you give in to the habit of complaining, you are also giving away your power.”

- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry

“It is a truism that how you think - about yourself, your world, and other people - is more important to your happiness than the objective circumstances of your life.”

- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“If you don’t believe it will happen, it is almost guaranteed that it won’t. You simply cannot achieve a goal that you do not believe you can achieve.”

- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

“Beliefs are the hidden scripts that run our lives.”

- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

“Being optimistic involves a choice about how you see the world.”

- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“As adults, we spend way too much time and energy worrying about things that we can’t control or that could go wrong.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“A growth mindset is about seeing problems as opportunities.”

- From Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry