Favorite Inspirational Quotes

When you’re ‘happy for no reason’, you bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them.  It’s not that your life always looks perfect - it’s that however it looks, you’ll still be happy.

Marci Shimoff

I can sure see the logic in this quote and it is inspirational that such a way of being will bring happiness to the everyday things.

I remember working with a woman who seemed to be happy all the time.  I was amazed by her attitude even when I couldn’t understand it.  I know that it appeared to make everything go easier for her, or at least things didn’t seem to bother her as much.

Today I can understand things a bit better due to the personal development I work at.  And I realize I say “work at” as I have such a long way to go.  About as close to being ‘happy for no reason’ that I can get most of the time is when I realize and count some of the ways I am so grateful - when I count my blessings.

However, I do have spells of being happy for no reason and they sure do make the day go better.  Maybe that’s a sign some of the personal development work I do is helping.  In those spells, the little things that go wrong don’t matter as much and I can enjoy the everyday things better.  I think if I could incorporate the act of celebrating the joy of now into my day at all times, I would be happy for no reason all the time.

Tags: personal development