8 Powerful Quotes on Taking Charge of Your Happiness, Right Here, Right Now!

Stop waiting to be happy! Get off the road to happiness! You can be happy now!

Being happy is about being grateful and be thankful day by day, moment by moment for what is right here, right now.  Don't eat for a couple days and see just how much happiness can be had from a slice of bread!

Here are 8 powerful quotes to inspire you, to take charge of your happiness, so you can be happy NOW:

1. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln



2. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu



3. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”― Oprah Winfrey



4. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ― Socrates



5. “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”― Pearl S. Buck 



6. “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People



7. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
   ― Guillaume Apollinaire 



8. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”―Aristotle