Quotes About Being Happy
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Happiness Quotes
1.) It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
2.) Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
3.) The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
4.) 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
5.) Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Unknown
6.) To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
7.) The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
8.) Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely, the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
Stacey Charter
Best Happy Quotes
9.) 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.
Dale Carnegie
10.) Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering
Winnie the Pooh
11.) Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
12.) Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Eskimo Proverb
13.) Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Good Happy Quotes
14.) To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
Mary Stuart
15.) Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
16.) Happy people plan actions; they don’t plan results.
Dennis Waitley
17.) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
Oscar Wilde
18.) Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin
19.) There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
20.) 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
Joy Sayings
21.) Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
22.) What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
23.) There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony de Mello
24.) Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
25.) The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore, guard accordingly.
Marcus Aurelius
26.) I just want to spend the rest of my life laughing.
Unknown
Quotes About Being Happy
27.) People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
28.) There are many shades on every journey. Nothing is black or white. I’ve been through he$% and back, and I’m grateful for every scar.
Beyoncé
29.) Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
30.) Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
31.) We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.
Talmud
32.) I have found that if you love life, life will love you back
Arthur Rubinstein
33.) The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
34.) Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
35.) We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
Lester Levinson
36.) We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Quotes About Happiness
37.) A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu.
38.) Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
39.) Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
40.) If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
41.) Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain – for 117 Great Mark Twain Quotes
42.) If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
James Cameron
Pleasing Quotations
43.) Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
44.) The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
45.) The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
Randy Pausch
46.) Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.
Beyonce
47.) The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Be Happy Quotes
48.) If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
49.) 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
50.) Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
51.) True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself.
Joseph Addison
52.) Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Ayn Rand
53.) Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
54.) I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
Paul Simon
55.) 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
Happy Thoughts Quotes
56.) What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure, but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
57.) One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo Tolstoy
58.) Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Aristotle
59.) Each morning, when I open my eyes, I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead; tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
60.) Happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens
61.) We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
Happy Quotes and Sayings
62.) Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
63.) A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
64.) Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
65.) How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendor of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
Pope Benedict XVI
66.) Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa
67.) Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Comforting Quotes
68.) Genuine happiness consists of those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others’ happiness.
The Dalai Lama
69.) When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall, in fact, be happy.
C.S. Lewis
70.) When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.
Augustine
71.) Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
72.) Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
Happy Life Quotes
73.) 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
74.) The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark Twain
75.) Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
76.) Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy
77.) Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and the end of human existence.
Aristotle
78.) Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
79.) Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
80.) These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Jesus Christ (John 15:11-12)
Living Right
81.) This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can.
George Bernard Shaw
82.) Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Thomas Aquinas
83.) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
84.) Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
85.) A great reminder that it’s okay to slow down sometimes Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin
86.) They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett
87.) Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
88.) The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
Short Quotes About Being Happy
89.) Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
90.) Count your age by your friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
91.) Happiness comes in waves. It’ll always come back.
Unknown
92.) Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
93.) Happiness is an inside job.
Unknown
94.) The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight.
Epictetus
95.) Happiness is the best makeup.
Drew Barrymore
96.) No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Gabriel García Márquez
97.) Beauty is everywhere. You only have to look to see it.
Bob Ross
Famous Happiness Quotes
98.) For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
99.) Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
100.) Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Short Happiness Quotes
101.) Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.
Walt Disney
102.) Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
Maya Angelou
103.) The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.
Goldie Hawn
104.) If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
Dolly Parton
105.) Happiness is not a goal but a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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