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1 " The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you. "
― Bethenny Frankel , A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life
2 " Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day. "
3 " Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. "
4 " No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy. "
5 " If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields "
6 " A lot of people feed their kids' tantrums with snacks and toys. Don't negotiate with terrorists. "
― Bethenny Frankel
7 " It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it. "
8 " That is very good. People always want to be in a hurry. They want to control everything around them. Even the weather. They say, "What is the weather today?" The only thing they don't control is themselves, when that is the one thing they can control. "
― Bethenny Frankel , Skinnydipping
9 " I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. "
10 " The thing about childhood noise is that if you let it take over, it can obliterate your true nature. The best qualities in you have always been there, but when you get stuck in the past and make your pain your identity, then that’s what you become… To have a future, you have to let the past be past. "
11 " Don’t paralyze yourself worrying that you might not do the right thing that will lead you to the fulfillment of all your dreams for the rest of your life—that’s just too much pressure. You’ll scare yourself into doing nothing. "
12 " Fear is a mindset, and so is the will to succeed. "
13 " No matter what you’ve done, even if you regret it, even if you don’t know what the hell to do next, every single thing that happens to you has the potential to open new doors. It happened for a reason—and it’s still taking you somewhere, even if you can’t see it right now. "
14 " When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner. "
15 " The question isn’t ‘Is he normal?’ or ‘Are you normal?’ but ‘What is normal for us? "
16 " Choose, accept, adapt. "
17 " You do what you can, when you can, and only after you’ve had enough sleep. "
18 " Nothing is forever, so prioritize what matters today and worry about tomorrow tomorrow. It’s not selfish, it’s survival. "
19 " You have to give yourself a break. You can’t come together with anyone else if you can’t even get yourself together. "
20 " If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize. "
