Quotes About Happiness

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• Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
• I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
• On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
• In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
• The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
• 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.
• 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.
• For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
• 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.
• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
• 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.
• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
• The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it.
• People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.
• The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
• 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?
• It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor ” such is my idea of happiness.
• You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.
• The deepest satisfaction you’ll find will be when you give all you’ve got on one thing, or when you’ll do absolutely nothing and accept life as it is. Think On and Off. Avoid the middle.
• What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
• Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.
• I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.
• We forge the chains we wear in life.
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
• Whoever is happy will make others happy.
• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
• Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
• Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
• All happiness depends on courage and work.
• Happiness is acceptance.
• The thicker the skin, the happier the man.
• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
• No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
• Happiness is inversely correlated with desire.
• Being happy is not the only happiness.
• If you want to be happy, be.
• Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy.
• Being happy is being satisfied. Being satisfied means accepting.
• Finding happiness is easy: stop being busy.
• Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
• The constant happiness is curiosity.
• Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
• Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
• The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
• 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.
• In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
• The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
• Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time…serenity, that nothing is.
• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
• People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
• 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.
• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
• Everything is a gift of the universe – even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
• The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
• The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
• If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
• The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
• 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.
• The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
• Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
• Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.
• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
• Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently.
• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
• Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
• What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
• Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
• Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
• Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
• Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
• Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
• Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
• Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
• 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.
• Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
• Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
• We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
• Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. .
• Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.
• We can’t control the world. We can only control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
• Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
• Happiness is a form of courage.
• It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.
• Happiness is an inside job.
• Happiness is a direction, not a place.
• The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
• 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.
• Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.
• Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
• Seek it outside and you’ll be exhausted. Seek it inside you’ll find a path.
• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
• It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
• The most valuable thing you can buy to make yourself happy is time.
• A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins.
• Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
• Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
• Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
• 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.
• Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.
• You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
• Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
• In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
• 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.
• One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
• 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.
• We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
• Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
• 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.
• Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
• Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
• 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.
• You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
• Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.
• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
• 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.
• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.
• 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.
• I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
• Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
• Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
• 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.
• In the end, you should be grateful for your pains. Like trees without wind, humans grow weak without resistance.
• 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.
• You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.
• Laughter is an instant vacation.
• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
• If you can laugh, you can get through it.
• You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
• Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.
• 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.
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
• Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
• Determine to live life with flair and laughter.
• Laughing brains are more absorbent.
• 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.
• Laugh, dance, smile, stay a little crazy. Life doesn’t always make sense.
• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
• Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
• Laughter is poison to fear.
• Joy is not in things; it is in us.
• Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
• Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
• The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
• Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
• To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
• Your most primal need are to seek comfort and security. Unless you understand how your craving mind works, you’ll never rise above it.
• The notion of happiness doesn’t exist in nature, it only exists in your mind.
• 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.
• Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
• A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
• 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.
• If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
• 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.
• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
• 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.
• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.
• Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
• 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.
• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
• As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
• 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.
• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
• If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
• 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.
• Having no expectations is a win-win situation. If the outcome is good you are pleasantly surprised. If not then no problem because you were not expecting anything to begin with.
• 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.
• A good way to simplify your life is to ask yourself every morning, what’s important to me?x9d. Then, spend most of your time on those things.
• The more you accumulate stuff, the more complex your life will be, the less freedom you’ll have.
• 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.
• The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
• Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
• 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.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
• You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
• Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.
• You’ll have a few happy memories of yourself in solitude but the most emotional and meaningful will be the ones with your family and friends.
• Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• Count your age xa0by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
• Happiness is only real when shared.
• Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.
• People happy in love have an air of intensity.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• There is more to life than increasing its speed.
• Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.
• Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it. That’s what makes life feel good: when it has direction, when you are heading straight for what you love.
• 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.
• 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.
• There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
• Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
• It can be scary to love. It can also become your greatest joy.
• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
• Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
• Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
• Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
• Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
• Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
• I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.
• 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.
• Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
• 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.
• 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.
• The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy ” to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work.
• When was the last time you paused and took a deep breath?
• Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That’s the hardest but also the most satisfying kind of life.
• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
• That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness.
• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
• 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.
• Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
• Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental.
• Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.
• Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to.
• 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.
• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
• Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.
• There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
• We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
• Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
• A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
• In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
• 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.
• Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
• Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.
• 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.
• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
• Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
• It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
• Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
• There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
• If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
• It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
• The more people need to show the’re happy, the less they are.
• Say no more often so you can say yes to what’s important.
• Your mind will seek security and comfort in accumulation . This is a never ending game. Be above that. Play the long game.
• There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere.
• Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
• One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.
• School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.
• Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.
• With my desire to improve everything, I destroy the moment.
• Not wanting something is as good as having it.
• Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
• If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
• Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.
• 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.
• You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.
• Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
• Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.
• Happiness is a place between too much and too little.
• Be you. Do you. For you.
• Happy girls are the prettiest.
• Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
• Happiness: A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
• We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
• Someday you’ll look back and understand why it all happened the way it did.
• Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile.
• If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
• There are so many beautifulAxa0reasons to be happy.
• The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday.
• Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
• People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.
• There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
• Don’t let the silly little things steal your happiness.
• The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.
• Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destinations.
• Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.
• One day, or day one, you decide.
• True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
• Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
• The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
• Happiness does not have a price tag so smile.
• Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my keys in the fridge.
• When someone told me I lived in a fantasy land I nearly fell of my unicorn.
• You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.
• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
• 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.
• Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
• It’s the little things in life.
• Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.