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Inspired by Minky’s post, I looked up some quotations I like and interpreted them my way.

“No wind favors he who has no destined port.” — Michel de Montaigne, 16th-century French man of letters and essayist

I like this one. You need a dream and destination. People need to figure out what makes them happy. Once you have this you can work towards it and make things happen. If you are in an unhappy situation and you have no port/dream then the chance of some magical solution coming to save you is very slim. But once you know where to go then slowly but surely things will happen to get you there.

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” — Count Leo Tolstoy, 19th-century Nobel Prize-winning Russian novelist

This sums up allot of different quotes and thoughts about happiness. There will never, ever be a situation that is going to make you 100% happy. Happiness comes from within and your view on life and appreciating things you already have and have experienced. If you would study happy people you would not find similar situations, similar jobs/incomes/living situations, but what you would find is a similar frame of mind. A mind that accepts happiness that sees the little blessings in friendships, in some sunshine and in living another healthy day.

"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher and poet

This quote is quite powerful. Don’t be a plastic toy boat floating on the ocean of life, but turn on your engine and head out to where you want to be. Life doesn’t just happen, you can make it happen, your way if you want to. Too many of us are lazy and just want everything to go right and perfect but we don’t understand that often we need to work for it ourselves to get that way. It’s a mindset we can have and choices we can make. Life is not something that is somehow magically destined, but rather what we do and the choices we make.

I feel I should go out on some motivational tour and speak to managers.
Anyway another powerful thought is that it is quite easy to give advice but quite hard to follow it. It’s not like I do everything perfectly but never stop trying to improve yourself and your situation. I don’t think that last sentence was grammatically correct but I don’t feel like going back and change it.