Living a Life You Love

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love - You can live the life you love - even in the face of the most challenging circumstances. While sometimes it may appear that life throws more obstacles in your path than you can handle, you can always choose to be happy. Yes, you are that powerful.
By Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

How to Think Positive

Poems about Life

Inspirational Sayings

Relationship Quotes

Encouraging Quotes

Amazing Quotes

Holiday Season

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss

The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further Reading: Today is a gift

Love, Celebration, and Humor

Index of my articles

Christmas Quotes

Holiday Quotes

Inspiring Quotes about Life

Quotes about Compassion

Short Inspirational Quotes

Words of Comfort

Choosing Joy

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Joyful Living

Simple Joys

Secrets for a Happy Life

Quotes about Joy

Quotes about Choice

Quotes about Fear

Quotes about Suffering

Quotes about Pain

Quotes for Joyful Living

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: Success Tip: Drive Change

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Courage Doesn't Always Roar by Mary Anne Radmacher

Mark Twain Quotes

Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes

Helen Keller Quotes

Quotes about Adventure

Quotes about Confidence

Quotes about Curiosity

Joy Has No Price

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Further reading: Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice

The Secret of Happiness

The truly rich

Giving Joy

Simple Joys

Finding Joy - a movie

Joy Quotes

Quotes about Happiness

Giving Joy

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

Doing for Others

Giving

Make life joyful

Generosity Quotes

Joy Quotes

Kindness Quotes

Gratitude Quotes

Simple Joys

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- jlh

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Further reading: Simple Gifts

12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Simple Living

Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice

Choose Inner Peace

Uplifting Quotes

Quotes about Happiness

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Choice

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Joy is a Choice,
but Not an Easy Choice.
- jlh

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Further reading: Joy is a Choice

Make Healthy Choices to Relieve Stress

Choice (Open Mind - Open Heart)

9 Secrets for Living a Happier Life

Choice Quotes

Attitude Quotes

Serenity Prayer

Quotes to Live By

Optimism

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts –
a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Sow optimism and hard work; reap a harvest of success and joy.
- jlh

Further reading: How to Think Positive

Attitude is Everything

How to Move On and Let Go


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Positive Thinking Quotes

Spring Quotes and Summer Quotes

Life is Beautiful Quotes

Living Life to the Fullest Quotes

Time Flies Quotes

Release your burdens. Choose Joy.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous

Take the weight of the world off your shoulders. Choose Joy.

Let my collection of Funny Inspirational Quotes give you a new perspective about life - the profound mix of the inspirational and the lighthearted in life.

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Inspirational Quotes about Life

Inspirational Love Quotes



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Find Joy in Nature

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse

Whenever you find yourself sad, spend time alone with nature. Go to the ocean. Go to the woods. Go to a garden. Go to a park. Breathe in the outdoors. Breathe in the peace. Breathe in the clean air that is without fears, without needs, without expectations.

Read: How to be Happy with Yourself

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Further reading: What I Know - What I Don't Know

I Say NO - I Say YES

What is a "Happy Day"

Picture Quotes
Quotes about Change and Letting Go
Funny Quotes about Life
Dont Give Up Quotes
Relationship Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None of us is perfect - and that's OK.

Life is not about perfection - or a quest for perfection. Life is about enjoying what we have - for as long as we have it.

Further reading: How to Cope with Rejection

How to Accept Life as It Comes

The Role of Travel in Accepting Life

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

• Words of Inspiration
• Inner Beauty Quotes
• Inner Peace Quotes
• Inner Strength Quotes
• Inspirational Pictures

Happy Holidays to All

May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to cheer you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing

Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

May you be joyful. May peace be with you. Pass the peace to all those around you.

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Further reading: How to Cope with Loneliness

Inspiring short stories of love, compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude

How to Survive the Office Holiday Party

Beautiful Quotes on Life

Amazing Quotes

Peace Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

Encouraging Sayings

Dance... enjoy each step along the way - Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Gratitude is the prayer, while Celebration is the song and the dance of praise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you are grateful -- and I hope you are always grateful -- celebrate your gratitude with great enthusiasm and joy.



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Further reading: The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Growing Up Quotes

Cheer Up Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

Choose Inner Peace and a Less Stressful Life

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
- Dalai Lama

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

The outer world will always attempt to pull you this way and push you that. There will always be external pressures from financial issues, career issues, health issues, relationship issues and more. Further, the TV news will always attempt to manipulate your emotions to increase your upset and anger at the seemingly rampant injustices of the world.

Nonetheless, you do always have the ability to resist these external stressors, and to live in inner peace and happiness. You can choose how you prefer to respond to external events, and you can train yourself to minimize your stress and maximize the joy you receive from life.

Stop! Breathe deeply. Begin bringing peace to the outer world by regaining your own inner peace. Choose love, choose gratitude, choose forgiveness, choose peace. Begin with your own inner peace. Then use that inner peace as a platform from which to approach the outer world with perspective, understanding, and patience.

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A life of happiness requires a plan and it requires action

Joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice
- jlh

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C.P. Snow

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

You can't "find" happiness. You can't successfully "pursue" happiness. You create a joyful life of great happiness by finding your purpose, by moving forward according to your purpose, by maintaining a positive perspective on everything and everyone around you.

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

Leap, and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs

If you think you can do it, you can.
- John Burroughs

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs

Today's affirmation: I accept that no one else has ever been to blame for either my joy or my suffering. The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings is my own emotional response to the events of my life.

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Further reading: Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering

Stop Anger Before Anger Stops You: 7 Secrets to Cope With Anger

You have the power to make life joyful

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie.

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- jlh

Today's affirmation: Today, I choose to create joy in my life. Whatever my external circumstances, I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.

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Further reading: The Paradox Of Living In The Moment - How To Be Happy Today And Prepare For Tomorrow

Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance. - jlh

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance. - Miyagi

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

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Further reading: Universal Kindness and Compassion

We are most like God when we forgive

Know that Spirit transcends all cultural differences and embraces all creation.

Spiritual Quotes

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. - Buddhist proverb

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious decision to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi's observation is fundamental to walking the path of a joyful life, but do understand that by "hurt" Gandhi means emotional suffering rather than physical pain.

Think of the playground rhyme, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me." In real life, most of us often feel very hurt by the words of others, but we can choose to moderate those feelings of perceived injury.

Further reading: Wisdom of Gandhi

Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice - jlh

Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. - jlh