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My name is Ken Wert, the founder of M2bH. My purpose here is to teach you how to live a richer life of greater purpose and meaning, of mind-blowing possibility and deeper, more soul-satisfying happiness than you ever dreamt was possible. Join us on this happy adventure as you learn how to unlock your hidden potential to enjoy the rewards of a life well lived. Read more ...Copyright © Meant to be Happy
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” ~ Aristotle
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” ~ Storm Jameson
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” ~ Robert Muller
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” ~ Marcel Pagnol
“The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
~Carrie Jones
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” ~Martha Washington
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~Guillaume Apollinaire
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” ~Mother Teresa
“I’m a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!” ~Sharon Swan
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ~J.M. Barrie
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” ~Albert Schweitzer
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
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“When someone does something good, applaud. You will make two people happy.” ~Samuel Goldwyn
“So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. … We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.”
-Thomas S. Monson
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others. By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“In the game of life a second effort is often required. The happy life is not ushered in at any age to the sound of drums and trumpets. It grows upon us year by year, little by little, until at last we realize that we have it. It is achieved in individuals not by flights to the moon or Mars, but by a body of work done so well that we can lift our heads with assurance and look the world in the eye. Of this be sure: You do not find the happy life . . . you make it.”
-Thomas S. Monson
“Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness”
-Henrik Ibsen
“Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley
“To make ourselves happy is incorporated in the great design of man’s existence. I have learned not to fret myself about that which I cannot help. If I can do good, I will do it; and if I cannot reach a thing, I will content myself to be without it. This makes me happy all the day long.”
-Brigham Young
“Happiness is the purpose and design of existence.”
-David O. McKay
“The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.”
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
-George Sand
“Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.”
-Henry B. Eyring
“Make up your mind to be happy – even when you don’t have money, even when you don’t have a clear complexion, even when you don’t have the Nobel Prize. Some of the happiest people I know have none of these things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. Why are they happy? I suppose it is because they don’t listen very well. Or they listen too well – to the things their hearts tell them. They glory in the beauty of the earth. They glory in the rivers and the canyons and the call of the meadowlark. They glory in the love of their families, the stumbling steps of a toddler, the wise and tender smile of the elderly. They glory in honest labor. They glory in the scriptures. They glory in the presence of the Holy Ghost. One thing I know for certain: the time we have here goes by far too quickly. Don’t waste any more time sitting on the bench watching life pass you by.”
-Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
-Joseph Smith
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
-Martha Washington
“Don’t be so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good. Sometimes we work overtime making the gospel of Jesus Christ miserable to live. Let your life be your trumpet.”
-Rand Packer
“Happiness is created. Love is its center.”
-Richard G. Scott
“The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything do to with the focus of our lives.”
-Russell M. Nelson
“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.”
-Maxime Lagacé
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
-Rita Mae Brown
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
-Steve Maraboli
“If you want to be happy, be.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”
-Werner Erhard
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
-Helen Keller
“If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
-Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
-Charles Dickens
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
-Guillaume Apollinaire
“We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.”
-William James
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
-Ludwig Jacobowski
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”
-Frank Tyger
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
-Helen Keller
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
-Joseph Addison
“I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.”
-Sri Chinmoy
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
-Dale Carnegie
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
-Mark Twain
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
-Dalai Lama
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.”
-Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
-Buddha
“Being happy is being satisfied. Being satisfied means accepting.”
-Maxime Lagacé
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
-Charles Spurgeon
“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.”
-David Steindl-Rast
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
-Hunter S. Thompson
“The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it.”
-Thibaut
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
-Andrew Carnegie
“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”
-Chinese proverb
“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”
-Aristotle
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”
-Sri Chinmoy
“True happiness comes only by making others happy.”
-David O. McKay
“As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“We shouldn’t wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available—all the time! Life is not meant to be appreciated only in retrospect.”
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.”
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.”
-Stephen R. Covey
“Sometimes we mistakenly may believe that happiness is the absence of a load. But bearing a load is a necessary and essential part of the plan of happiness.”
-David A. Bednar