We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William James
Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Ludwig Jacobowski
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
Frank Tyger
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
Joseph Addison
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.
Richard Branson
I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself
Sri Chinmoy
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Colette
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Anton Chekhov
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time…serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz (This is one of my favorite happiness quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
Roy T. Bennett
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark Twain
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
Buddh
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
St. Augustine
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
The constant happiness is curiosity.
Alice Munro
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
Colette
Being happy is not the only happiness.
Alice Walker
Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.
Stephen Chbosky
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Gabriel García Márquez
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Seneca
Happiness is acceptce.
Unknown
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
Winnie the Pooh
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
Anne Frank
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.
David Henry Hwang
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
Henrik Ibsen
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.
Dany Laferrière
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William R. Inge
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.
Allen J. Lefferdink
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Be a Fruitloop in a world of Cheerios.
Unknown
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Shari R. Barr
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Lady Blessington
You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Stve Maraboli
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Bernard Meltzer
Happiness: A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Daily Crescent
Happy girls are the prettiest.
Audrey Hepburn
One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.
Chinese Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.
Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.a
Chinese proverb
Happiness is a place between too much and too little.
Finnish proverb
Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.
English proverb
Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.
Henepola Gunaratana
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
L.M. Montgomery
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.
Bob Marley
Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
Alan Cohen
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.
Naval Ravikant
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Faeya Stark
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
Nathaniel Branden
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Unknown
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to.
Robert Brault
Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert S. Lynd
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
Robert Brault
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That’s the best kind of life.
Maxime Lagacé
The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.
W. Beran Wolfe
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.
Diego Val
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.
H.W. Byles
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
Benjamin Franklin
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
Sri Chinmoy
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
Peter Hagerty
One must become mad with love in order to realize God. But that love is not possible if the mind dwells on ‘woman and gold’. Sex-life with a woman! What happiness is there in that? The realization of God gives ten million times more happiness.
Ramakrishna
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Charlotte Bronte
True happiness comes not from a limited concern for one’s own well-being, or that of those one feels close to, but from developing love and compassion for all sentient beings.
Dalai Lama
I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you’re watching something you do make somebody happy – that’s when happiness happens.
Eve Ensler
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
Lafcadio Hearn
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
Marla Gibbs
Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones, this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important.
Thich Nhat Hanh
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal
Happiness is only real when shared.
Jon Krakauer
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Charlotte Bronte
You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
Alan Cohen
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
Alan Cohen
I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy.
Naval Ravikant
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.
Jennifer Niven
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Keonig
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
Andrew Delbanco
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald Jampolsky
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald Jampolsky
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
Divyanka Tripathi
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
People should find happiness in the little things, like family.
Amanda Bynes
Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures.
Bar Refaeli
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.
Michael J. Fox
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
Taisen Deshimaru
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Seneca
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
Marcus Aurelius
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
Alan Cohen
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Openheim
The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
Roy T. Bennett
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
Roy T. Bennett
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
Laughter is poison to fear.
George R.R. Martin
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all
Jean de La Bruyere
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein
Laughing brains are more absorbent.
Alton Brown
Determine to live life with flair and laughter.
Benjamin Franklin
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
Bono
Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
Ellen Degenere
Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.
James Dashner
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben
You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
Jonathan Davis
If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot.
Jami Gertz
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
Rachael Ray
I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
Milton Berle
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.
Lauren Oliver
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman
Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.
Mark Manson
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
Roy T. Bennett
Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.
Roy T. Bennett
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain
Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.
Sue Knight
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Oprah Winfrey
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Billy Graham
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Rick Warren
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
Hazelmarie Elliott
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsk
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O’Neill
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald McLeish
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
Leslie Caron
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
Mignon McLaughli
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
John Suckling
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
Vivian Komori
A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
They say money doesn’t bring happiness, but everyone still wants to prove it for themselves.
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
Alain De Botton
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. Chesterton
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
Evangeline Lilly
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.
Dan Millman
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
Mignon McLaughlin
Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.
Sam Rosen
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period. Chris Gardner, from The Pursuit of Happyness
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. Gandalf, from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
For the first time let just allow ourselves to be whatever it is that we are.
Garden State
Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first. Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
In this life time, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through,if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen. Rudy
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it. Rafiki, The Lion King
After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are. Shrek
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
John
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalm
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation.
Isaiah
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.
Luke
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians
