***MEET AUTHOR CYNTHIA DIANE CLAYTON AND JOURNEY TOGETHER***
WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS, YOU CHANGE YOUR EXPERIENCE OF YOUR WORLD 🌍 👀
Here are some of my favorite quotes on being responsible for your own happiness, because you have the right AND the ability to create a happy life. Your thoughts direct your perspective, emotions, and behavior, so who or what cultural or societal forces are you allowing to be in charge of your thoughts? Read Compass of Hope to learn how to correct your own thinking, for only then will you be truly happy.
9/5/20251 min read
🙂Rupert Spira: “The understanding that peace and happiness cannot be given or taken away by external circumstances, is one of the greatest discoveries a person can make.”
😃Marcus Aurelius: “Very little is needed to make a happy life: it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
🥰Eric Butterworth: “Some people seem to feel that you should be unhappy, that you should be negative. If you walk into an office someday smiling, and singing, and whistling, people say, "What do you have to be so happy about?" But as I say so often, you don't have to have anything to be happy about ever. You can be happy simply because you want to be happy. Abraham Lincoln once said, "A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."
This is the key to a positive life. This is the key to positive thinking. It's not filling your mind with a lot of happy platitudes, but it's simply determining that you have control, and you can think the kind of thoughts that you want to think. Making the commitment at the beginning of the day and regulating through the day that you're not going to allow people, or conditions, or circumstances to decide how you're going to think or feel.”
😁“Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.” ⁓ Ann Brashares
☺️“Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.” ⁓ Beyoncé
🙂“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
⁓ Dalai Lama
🥳“Happiness is not a goal—it's a by-product of a life well lived.” ⁓ Eleanor Roosevelt