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

5 years: It's your time. It's your life. What will you do with it? What could you do with it?

The Five Book by Dan Zadra

Where Will You be Five Years from Today?
The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years.

Peak inside this book.

Graduating from college? Considering a new career? Inspiring your sales or service teams? Setting goals for retirement? Here’s your inspiration. The 5 book is your playbook for life. It features thought-provoking quotations and real-life examples to serve as both a spark and a road map for what’s exciting in your life.

Each year life offers itself to us an endless number of ways. Each moment comes to us with both hands filled with gifts, marvels, opportunities and adventures--but we seldom see or accept more than a tiny franction of the exciting possibilities around us.

The truth is, most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to do the we never get around to doing what we really want to do.

This book celebrate the "want to's," the "choose to's" and the "I can't wait to's" in your life.  Whether you're just finishing school, starting a new venture, celebrating a milestone or envisioning your retirement, you are the hero of this story.

 This is your life, your one-and-only life.  You determine what's possible.  Make choices, ask questions, take steps--today is the day.

The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years.


Let the 5 book be your guide.  There are no rules here.  This is not a work book, it's a play book.  This is not a "here's how" book, it's a "why not?" book.  So be daring, be bold and be true to yourself.  Over the next five years, what do you really want to be?  Really want to do?  Really want to have?  Where do you really want to go?

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on or blame.  The gift of life is yours--it is an amazing journey--and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.

Your journey is determined by the choices you make.  Your answers are determined by the questions you ask.  Your destination is determined by the steps you take.  Your future is determined by what you do today.

Where will you be five years from today?