The best time to be happy is always now. You want the future to come, because it is better there. The future is an illusion. It is just a concept in your head. When it arrives, it will arrive as the present moment. If you are not here and now, you will miss it. You will keep ...
More important than Happiness / Wichtiger als Glück / Mais importante que a Felicidade / Mas importante que la Felicidad
The stereotype of world travelers is the upper-middle-class kid who goes to some random, third-world country, sees a bunch of poor, half-naked kids joyfully playing in sewage puddles with toys made out of string and broken sticks. And suddenly has the life-changing epiphany that, 'No', you do not in fact need an XBox 360 and 24-hour ...
Success is not Happiness / Erfolg ist kein Glück / Sucesso não é Felicidade / Exito no es Felicidad
You may confuse happiness with accomplishments. When you achieve something new, when there is a new accomplishment to add to your success list, you probably feel happy. Only for a while. You tend to forget every one of your accomplishments very quickly and every failure sticks with you much longer. Your brain prefers to remember all your failures rather than ...
Create Yourself / Erschaffe Dich Selbst / Crie você Mesmo / Créate a ti Mismo
If you can not find what you want, create it. If you can not find yourself, create yourself. Be somebody who reminds everybody of nobody. Be brilliant. Be the first. Be interesting. Be unusual. Be an expert. Always be better than yesterday but never as good as tomorrow. Make an impact. Leave a mark. Show ...