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HAPPY QUOTES

 WHAT THE HAPPINESS QUOTES

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
Julian Barnes

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.
Dodinsky

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.
J.M. Reinoso

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.
Thomas Merton

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 not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

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 opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. Channing Pollock,
Mr. Moneypenny

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
Woody Allen

HAPPINESS QUOTES

Happiness is an inside job.
William Arthur Ward

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck 

We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.
David C. Hill

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.
James Lendall Basford

Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold

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

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
Robert Brault

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Werner Erhard

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.
Norman MacEwan

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

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

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is an occasional brief glance into how simple it all can be.
Robert Brault

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Ayn Rand

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.
Robert McPhillips

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
Norman Bradburn

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Mildred Barthel

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
Orhan Pamuk

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.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
Robert Brault

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V.S. Pritchett

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
Tony Robbins

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg

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.
Robertson Davies

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.
Mary Wilson

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.
Dr. Idel Dreimer

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

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HAPPINESS QUOTES THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris 

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.
Buddha

Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

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-Curtin

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison 

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

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

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
Stephen Chbosky

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

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney

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

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
Alan Cohen

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides

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

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

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs.
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

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

TRUE HAPPINESS QUOTES

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

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.
Thornton Wilder

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

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

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 

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens

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

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
Buddha

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

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

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

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

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn

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

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s thelife in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve 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

Be you. Do you. For you.
Unknown

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer

You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.
Henepola Gunaratana

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
Richard Carlson

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa

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

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

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

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere.
Jiddhu Krishnamurti

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.
Naval Ravikant

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
L.M. Montgomer

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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

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.
Freya Stark

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cather

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

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

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

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
Yevgeny Zamyatin

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Gabriel García Márquez

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS AND LIFE

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

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

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

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

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

QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS AND 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.
Eve Ensler

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.
Barbara Sher

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

Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.
Willie Hill

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

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

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

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
Lauren Oliver Delirium

QUOTES ABOUT FAMILY AND HAPPINESS

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.
Michael J. Fox

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Orson Scott Card

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
Mandy Hale

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
Dorothy Parker

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.”
Arundhati Roy,The God of Small Things

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.
Wil Zeus,(Sun Beyond the Clouds)

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James Matthew Barrie

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.
David Levithan

There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
Elizabeth Berg

Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.
Buddha

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Ellen Hopkins

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
Scott Fitzgerald

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
Shannon L. Alder

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...
Nick Hornby

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.
Roy T. Bennett

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
Tana French

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
Ann Brashares

QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS SMILING AND LAUGHTER

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

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

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
Madeleine L’Engle

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. Jean de
La Bruyere

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.
Herman Melville

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Thackeray

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.
Herbert Procknow

An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Nansbury

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And keep a sense of humor. It doesn’t mean you have to tell jokes. If you can’t think of anything else, when you’re my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you’ll get a laugh.
Art Linkletter

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
Lao Tsu

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel

Cancer is probably the unfunniest thing in the world, but I’m a comedian, and even cancer couldn’t stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.
Gilda Radner

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.
Mevlana Rumi

Even the gods love jokes
Plato

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

A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.
Carolyn Birmingham

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 Degeneres

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

HAPPINESS QUOTES FROM ANONYMOUS

As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul.

There a so many beautiful reasons to be happy.

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.

It’s the little things in life.

One day, or day one, you decide.

Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.

Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destinations.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.

Don’t let the silly little things steal your happiness.

There is no cosmetic for beauty life happiness.

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday.

There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.

Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile.

Happiness is not a goal: it is a by-product.

Someday you’ll look back and understand why it all happened the way it did.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.

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.

It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.

Happiness is a place between too much and too little.

Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.

Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.

Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.