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Rasheed Ogunlaru quotes about happiness
Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you’ll be dazzled by it. But it’s nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed – tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift. It’s now – not tomorrow – where happiness and fulfilment live…awaiting your discovery. It’s all this that will make each extra day that may arrive extra special and rich.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve ‘this’ or ‘that’ or reach something you call ‘success’ in order to gain it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you’ll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else’s
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your life – and all lives – will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I’ve found that trying to be like everyone else, do what others do and follow others ‘guaranteed path’ to ‘so-called success’ never really works for me. I have found my best strategy is to authentically be me, listen within and follow it….and then to treat and connect with others – wherever I can – personally, personably and individually.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
During my life journey I’ve discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich – beyond material and transient things.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment…. bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it – and those along your journey – warmly, kindly and mindfully
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do – it will nourish and sustain you…and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry – or with with heart, head or belly ache – and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache – and often leaves a bitter taste
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t expect others to hand success to you. Create it – with heart, energy and enterprise – and you’ll make it come true
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rest and peace should not be left until you’re deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you feel that you are going without go within
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose – if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It’s your heart that will really keep you on tack… and nourished along the way.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There is no question- love is the answer
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content – and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
— Rasheed Ogunlaru