“Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Why do we allow anticipated joys to blind us to those that are close by” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“One of the worst doctrines ever set afloat is that real happiness is in material things instead of in a condition of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The great mass of people do not extract ten per cent, of the happiness possible in their everyday life, largely because they… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The human mind is happiest when it is most active in performing the functions which it was intended to perform. One of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, I wander for a while, and I smile and say: ‘It is but for a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The sight of other people's prosperity seems to kill their appreciation and the enjoyment of their possessions. To be happy, we must… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Robust health and optimism produce happiness. The power of a sunny soul to transform the most trying situations in life is beyond… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things in life is the false ideas everywhere prevalent regarding the nature of happiness. The general belief seems… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what others have,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
