Quotes from Marci Shimoff

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It's a must have.

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.

Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you're worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.

Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy.

When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher

Sometimes, said Miss Phillips, the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot. —The Talmud Most

She resolved every day to: 1. Do something for someone else. 2. Do something for myself 3. Do something I don't want to do that needs doing. 4. Do a physical exercise 5. Do a mental exercise 6. Do an original prayer that always includes counting my blessings

But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

Don't believe everything you think.

Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher T

Don't you think it was a little selfish to travel around the world looking for yourself?" She always answered, "You know what? I actually think it would have been a little selfish to spend the rest of my life in narcissistic, depressive, anxious misery. That person adds nothing to society, adds nothing to any room that she enters, adds nothing to the people whom she touches. The best community service I can possibly offer the world is to stay healthy and sane.

Intention, Attention, No Tension.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. —Maya Angelou, author and poet Have

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace. —The Venerable Ajahn Chah, twentieth-century Buddhist monk In

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. —John Dryden, seventeenth-century English poet and dramatist

When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person. When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the house. When there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens. —Epictetus, Greek philosopher I

Happiness Habits for Empowerment 1. Focus on the Solution 2. Look for the Lesson and the Gift 3. Make Peace with Yourself

To become happier we have to snap out of the trance that our happiness rests in "more and better" which we'll get "someday." No matter what we have, Happy for No Reason exists only now, not later. The

It turns out that we each have our own built-in GPS that leads us toward happiness in the form of an expansion/contraction feedback system. If you feel more expanded, you're going in the right direction; if you feel contracted, it's time for a course correction.

According to Chinese medicine, each of our organs relates to a specific emotion—the liver relates to anger, the kidneys to fear, the lungs to sadness, and the spleen to worry—and there are specific types of cleanses for the different organs. Some experts recommend doing regular cleanses at the change of each season.