Happiness Quote by Mary Schmich Download Open image “The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.” — Mary Schmich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Happiness Thanksgiving Imperfection Pleasure Pleasure Imperfection Secret Secret Happiness Secret to happiness Thanksgiving Time
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If one adopts an attitude that constantly sees life as a gift, then naturally a feeling of thanksgiving emerges out of oneself, and nothing… — Ryōjun Shionuma Copy Share Image
“Finding joy in the experience of imperfection is a surer way to happiness than the pursuit of happiness as a goal.” — Jodi Orgill Brown Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image