Walking on Sunshine Quotes

“While these small, quiet acts of kindenss may not be acknowledged in a worldly sense, they might mean the world to those who experience the.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Reculer pour mieux sauter is the French phrase for it – step back in order to leap higher.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Crying has the power to unify our thoughts, feelings, and physical body in a way that is cathartic and automatically grounds us in the present.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“You are not more special when the world smiles on you, nor does your value diminish when things don't work out. This is your midpoint: a steadying mindset of valuing yourself and you endeavors that is neither inflated by external successes nor punctured by worldly defeat.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“I'm learning, however, to try not to let achievements determine my sense of self-worth.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Life unfolds and what happens, happens.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“I've made so many mistakes, and I've learned so much, I'm thinking of making some more.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird." Such advice – to slow down and take life in small chunks, even minute by minute – has never felt timelier to me. Minutes come one at a time. Never in my whole life will I have to deal with more than the next sixty seconds at one time. And nor will you.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Like the cracks on a Japanese pot, it's part of me and my history, not something I'm trying to disguise.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Like a broken Japanese pot, I have experienced cracks and breaks, but time and patience have helped put me back together again.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“The secret is this: even if I did manage to accept every invitation, never miss any event, or finally complete that wretched to-do list – I'd still be missing out: on the serenity and freedom of doing nothing.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“I'm not quite sure why running water is so calming. Maybe it's the perpetual motion: it never ceases to move and is full of vitality. Maybe it's the soothing sound that muffles the loud noises of a big city, giving us a sense of peace. Maybe it's the realization that something as hard as rock can be worn away by something as soft as water. Or perhaps it's because humans are 70 percent water, and somehow we are reminded of the connection between the water within us and thew water without. Become separate from nature, and we become separate from ourselves.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“There's a saying, however, that it is only when our hands are emptied that we can receive something new.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Next time you hug someone, notice the difference when you hold them for that little bit longer, softly acknowledging their physical presence with yours. We can't all move to the rain forest, but maybe such gestures will take us halfway there.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“I'm still prone to feeling inadequate when I define life as a series of milestones and find I'm not at the place I have decided is an arbitrary indicator of success.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Having suffered from depression in the past, I've found it helpful to focus on my mental health rather than on mental illness.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“When trying to express my emotions, it also helps to say, for example, I feel sad rather than I am sad. I am not the feeling, nor will I always experience that emotional state – it is temporary.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“Negative thinking can become automatic, but so can positive thinking if we actively make a habit of paying more attention to the good than to the bad.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness

“We live in a world that tells us we should be able to solve our problems, yet many of the challenges we face are out of control.”
― Rachel Kelly, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness