Quotes About Being Happy
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Happiness Quotes
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
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
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Unknown
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
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
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
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
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Good Happy Quotes
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
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
Dennis Waitley
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
Oscar Wilde
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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
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Joy Sayings
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
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
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
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
Marcus Aurelius
Quotes About Being Happy
People with many interests live, not only longest but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.
Talmud
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back
Arthur Rubinstein
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
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
Lester Levinson
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Quotes About Happiness
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
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.
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
James Cameron
Pleasing Quotations
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
Randy Pausch
Be Happy Quotes
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
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
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
Joseph Addison
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Ayn Rand
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
Paul Simon
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
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
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
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Aristotle
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
Happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens
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
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
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
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
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa
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
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
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall, in fact, be happy.
C.S. Lewis
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
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
Happy Life Quotes
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
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark Twain
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and the end of human existence.
Aristotle
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.
Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Thomas Aquinas
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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
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