Books to make you feel happy

Do you have a favourite book that makes you happy? Here is the Selfvibe review team’s favourite books which do just that.

No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal

This story is set in a suburb outside Cleveland where a community of Indian Americans has settled. Harit is a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid forties who lives with his mother, a woman who can no longer function after the death of her daughter, Swati. In an attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every night to pass himself off as his sister.

Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid forties, has just seen her only child, off to college and she is worried that her husband has begun an affair.  When Harit and Ranjana cross paths, the two begin a strange friendship that brings to light their own passions and fears. Funny and heartwarming, this is a must read.

The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang

Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the eldest Wang daughter, Saina.

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Inspiring words to keep your spirits high

Check out these motivational words and famous quotes to explain perfectly the importance of these words, curated by the Selfvibe review team.

Excellence

• "Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

—Ralph Marston

• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

—Aristotle

• “Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”

—Abdul Kalam 

Focus

• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

—Aristotle

• “I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”

—Zig Ziglar

• “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”

—Ralph Marston

Forgive

• "Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right; it makes you free."

—Stormie Omartian

• “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

—Mark Twain

• “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Words to explain why we all need to travel

Feel inspired to travel again with this great collection of quotes which explain the importance of travel, curated by the Selfvibe review team.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – Tim Cahill

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G. K. Chesterton

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Gaby Basora

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Funny lines to cheer up your mood

Feeling like you need a good laugh right about now? Then take a few minutes to read through these funny one-liners curated by the Selfvibe review team.

“Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment.” – Betty White

“Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.” – Bill Maher

“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.” – Bill Vaughan

“Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” – Bill Vaughan

“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.'” – Claude Pepper

“They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” – Clint Eastwood

“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.” – Colonel Sanders

“A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.'” – Conan O’Brien

“Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!'” – Conan O’Brien

“The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.” – Josh Billings

“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.” – Karl Kraus

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” – Katharine Hepburn

“God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.” – Meister Eckhart

“In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We’re only one God away from total agreement.” – Michael Shermer

“My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.” – Mike Myers

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” – Miles Kington

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.” – Milton Berle

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” – Milton Berle

“My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.” – Milton Berle

“I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.” – Mitch Hedberg

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Quotes about what it is to be a role model

If you are role model for someone or have a role model in your life, then you will appreciate these quotes curated by the Selfvibe review team.

“I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.” – Ann Richards

“I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.” – Jennifer Lopez

“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.” – Tiger Woods

“I’m not a role model. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” – Charles Barkley

“I’m not paid to be a role model. Parents should be role models.” – Charles Barkley

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

“One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them to be.” – Carol B. Hillman

“Parents have a big responsibility because they are the primary example of empathy and must practice being empathic themselves.” – Iben Dissing Sandahl

“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.” – Oliver Goldsmith

“Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life’s scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children’s lives.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others. It is the only means.” – Albert Einstein  

“The best way to teach children restraint and generosity is to be a model of those qualities yourself.” – Lawrence Balter

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Hero Quotes to Inspire Everyone to Make a Difference

Be inspired by these hero quotes curated by the Selfvibe review team which show that you don’t have to be a comic book star to be a hero in real life.

1. “A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.” – Christopher Reeve

2. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” – Criss Jami

3. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

4. “Nothing is given to man on earth – the struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.” – Andrew Bernstein

5. “Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.” – Mahatma Gandhi

6. “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

7. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christoper Reeve

8. “To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.” – Simone Weil

9. “You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” – George Bernard Shaw

10. “The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.” – Umberto Eco

11. “Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the power they are graced with.” – Brodi Ashton

12. “To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.” – Mike Alsford

13. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers

14. “The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.” – Johann Kaspar Lavater

15. “The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.” – Henry David Thoreau

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Exercise and wellness quotes to make you feel good about yourself and life

Fight for the life you want with these motivational health and wellness quotes curated by the Selfvibe review team.

“Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”- Morgan Spurlock

“When you start eating food without labels, you no longer need to count calories.”- Amanda Kraft

“Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.” – Jim Rohn

“Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.” – Anthony Robbins

“Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.” – John H. Tobe

“The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.” – Unknown

“Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

“We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.”- Dr. Kenneth Cooper

“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” – Jack Lalanne

“I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Mohammad Ali

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basic of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”- John F. Kennedy

“You can’t be fat and fast, too; so lift, run diet, and work.”- Hank Stram

“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.” – Joan Welsh

“If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.” – Julius Erving

“Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to. We’re talking about three to six hours a week – or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 – 165 hours of the week.” – Stephen Covey

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