So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love. Marci Shimoff More Quotes by Marci Shimoff More Quotes From Marci Shimoff Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love. Marci Shimoff inspirationallovejobs When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart. Marci Shimoff forgivenesshurtinspirational When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness. Marci Shimoff happypositivehappiness The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them. Marci Shimoff happypositiverelationship HeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body. Marci Shimoff carepowerfulfeelings Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you're worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your life throughout the day. Marci Shimoff law-of-attractioncreatingthinking Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life Marci Shimoff gratitudethankfulinspirational To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change. Marci Shimoff japanprogressbaby In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of things they felt grateful for, enjoyed better physical health, were more optimistic, exercised more regularly, and described themselves as happier than a control group who didn’t keep journals. Marci Shimoff gratitudeoptimisticgrateful Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where all your power is. That's when you see how you can become a deliberate creator of your life. And when you are a deliberate creator of your life, and you use this law of attraction, you will have a life that is beyond what you can possibly imagine right now. Marci Shimoff law-of-attractionfeelingsreality Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear. Marci Shimoff inner-peacevisionjoy We're all here to live a fabulous life... a life of love, truth, and joy.We have the power to wake up to that. We have the power to say "I'm not just here to survive, I'm here to live the greatest life that can be lived". Marci Shimoff fabulous-lifewake-upjoy Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. Marci Shimoff mastersfeelingsreality When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy. Marci Shimoff perfecthappinesslooks Love isn’t just something we feel for others, it’s who we are. Though we usually think of love as a stream of emotion flowing between two people, love is more like an ocean that’s inside and all around us. Instead of walking around with a little cup, begging for a few drops of love from others, recognize that you’re the huge ocean of love. Marci Shimoff oceanlove-isthinking Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having those things, certainly doesn't guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. And that's when all those outer things come. They don't come from going after them first to get the happiness, it's backwards; you go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all of the other things from the outside appear. Marci Shimoff homejoypeople Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness. Marci Shimoff supporthappinesstwo Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go. Marci Shimoff practiceletting-gomoving I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe." When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future. Marci Shimoff choicesinspiringtwo When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they're changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that. Marci Shimoff oilhappinesspeople
