Happiness Quotes

“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”
- Ruth E. Renkl

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
- Joseph Campbell

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass...it’s about learning to dance in the rain”.
- Unknown Author

May 2010

“The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.”
- Napoleon Hill

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
- Alexandre Dumas

“At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.”
- Yehuda Berg

“It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
- Tony Robbins

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
- Ralph W. Sockman

“If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children.”
- Gandhi

April 2010

“Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it’s good to be silly at the right moment.”
- Horace

“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”
- Deepak Chopra

“When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.”
- Bernie S. Siegel

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
- Oscar Wilde

“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.”
- Dan Millman

“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”
- Jean Webster

March 2010

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
- Sydney J. Harris

“Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.”
- Ralph Marston

“To be happy, make other people happy.”
- W. Clement Stone

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
- Leonardo da Vinci

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”
- Henry Van Dyke

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
- John Homer Miller

“The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.”
- Robert Ingersoll

“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.”
- William Ralph Inge

“Only passion, great passion, can elevate the soul to great things.”
- Diderot

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every [person] has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all [people] have some.”
- Charles Dickens

“Feelings are not controlled by one's circumstances. Feelings are determined by how one choose to respond to various situations and events.”
- Ralph Marston

February 2010

“If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.”
- T.S. Eliot

“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
- Allan K. Chalmers

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
- William James

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
- William Feather

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
- Henry Ford

January 2010

“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.”
- Harold B. Melchart

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

“We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...”
- Julie Cameron

“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”
- Jean Webster

“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
- Walter Anderson

“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”
- Oprah Winfrey

“Love never fails, character never quits, and dreams do come true.”
– Pete Maravich

December 2009

“May the best things that happened to you in 2009 be the worst things that happen to you in 2010.”
- Neil J. Cantor

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”
- John D. Rockefeller III

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every [person] has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all [people] have some.”
- Charles Dickens

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.”
- Helen Keller

“If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy."
- H. Duane Black

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
- John Barrymore

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which the world affords."
- Samuel Johnson

“Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.”
- Arnold Glasgow

“We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
- Annais Nin

November 2009

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.”
- Mark Twain

October 2009

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.”
- Helen Keller

“A Definition of Jealousy: The illogical consideration that someone else's success equates to your failure."- Kenneth H. Kaufman

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- Buddha

“Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.”
- Brian Tracy

“Think of all the beauty still around you and be happy”
- Anne Frank

September 2009

“Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.”
- Dan Millman

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
- Mahatma Ghandi

“Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.”
- Zig Ziglar

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
- E.E. Cummings

“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.”
- Decimus Junius Juvenal

“None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.”
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

August 2009

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
- A. A. Milne

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in.”
- Katherine Mansfield

“The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.”
- Marya Mannes

“What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.”
- Baruch Spinoza

“A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.”
- Deepak Chopra

“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
- Helen Keller

“Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
- Muhammad Ali

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius"
- Benjamin Disraeli

“Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”
- Russell W. Davenport

July 2009

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.”
- Margaret Bonnano

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
- Lou Holtz

“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”
- The Dalai Lama

“Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
- Unknown Author

“Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.”
- Mark Twain

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
- Winston Churchill

June 2009

“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
- Doug Firebaugh

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
- James Dean

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
- Anne Frank

“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.”
- Author Unknown

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
- Paulo Coelho

May 2009

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell

“Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again.”
- Yobi Yamada

“The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of a plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.”
- W.J. Davison

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”
- John D. Rockefeller III

April 2009

“Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
- Douglas Pagels These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

“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 has achieved the second".
- Logan Pearsall Smith

“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
- George Horace Lorimer

“Happiness comes from counting our blessings, appreciating little things – a flower by a stream, seagulls circling over the ocean, laughter of little children, a call from a friend, a challenge met. Happiness comes from celebrating the moment - not waiting for all our problems to be solved. Happiness comes from cultivating a thankful heart.”
- Author Unknown

“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”
- John Milton

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
- Brian Tracy

“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 which has been opened for us.”
- Helen Keller

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive”.
- Lee Iacocca

March 2009

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”
- James M. Barrie

“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
- James M. Barrie

“There is nothing more attractive than a happy person.”
- Author Unknown

February 2009

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
- John Barrymore

“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.”- Horace Friess

“The basic thing that everyone wants is happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”
- The Dalai Lama

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.”
- Francoise de Motteville

January 2009

“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient”
- Aristotle

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.”
- Bertrand Russell

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
- Brother David Steindl-Rast

“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
- Eric Hoffer

December 2008

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
- Author Unknown

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
- Aristotle

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
- Albert Schweitzer

“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Allan K. Chalmers

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”
- Buddha

November 2008

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom in life”
- Ben Franklin

“None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy”
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues”
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
- Emily Dickinson

“Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or how low down you are – but on the direction in which you are tending”
Samuel Butler

October 2008

"The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall."
- Confucius

“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has."
- Epictetus

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
- Norman Vincent Peale

And one I love which is especially relevant in today's economic climate...

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it just saps the joy out of today.”
- Leo Buscaglia

HAPPINESS LIES IN THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT: Happiness is a byproduct. You cannot pursue it by itself. You were built to conquer your environment, solve problems, and achieve goals.You'll find no real satisfaction or happiness in lifewithout obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Happiness is in activity. It's a running river not a stagnant pond.Happiness is not in having or being, it's in doing something you love. The secret of happiness is in having something to do.

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
- Sydney J. Harris

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”
- Spurgeon

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
- Denis Waitley

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always there.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis for health."
- Henri Amiel

“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
- Bruce Barton

“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.”
- William Ralph Inge

“In-between stimulus and response is a space. In that space lies our power and freedom to choose. How we wield those choices determines our happiness.”
- Steven R. Covey

“We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.”
- Mary Blake

"When someone is happy, positive, upbeat and passionate about things, it trickles down."
- Andrew Jacob Mahr

“Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.”
- Ralph W. Sockman

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, not this thing nor that, but simply growth."
- W.B.Yeats

"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."
- Jean Webster

"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give."
- Walt Whitman

"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."
- Bernie S. Siegel

"I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy … you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield

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