It’s easy to forget to be happy. In the midst of life’s stresses and strains, it’s easy to get caught up in it. To lose focus on your happiness, and forget how your truly find it in the first place. Well, I want to change that. I want to change how you think about happiness, and give you the best chance of finding your own happiness through the words of others. Below are 50 quotes about happiness, to show you life through a new lens and remind you how to be truly and honestly happy: 1. “Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness”- William E. Gladstone 2. “Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain” – Joseph Campbell 3. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln 4. “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5. “Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” – Bernard Meltzer 6. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open” – John Barrymore 7. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle 8. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”- Helen Keller 9. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker 10. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” - Dalai Lama 11. “I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.” – Henry Miller 12. “True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca 13. “If you want to be happy, be” – Leo Tolstoy 14. “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls” - Mother Teresa 15. “Happiness is good health and a bad memory” - Ingrid Bergman 16. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that” – Martin Luther King 17. “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all” - Ovid 18. “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 19. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action” – Benjamin Disraeli 20. “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels” – Bertolt Brecht 21. “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 22. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” -Mark Twain 23. “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about” – Dale Carnegie 24. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering”-Winnie the Pooh 25. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy” -Thich Nhat Hanh 26. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”-Marthe Troly-Curtin 27. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it”-Seneca 28. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”- Confucius 29. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking”- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 30. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon 31. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”-Winston Churchill 32. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”-Aesop 33. “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it”-Groucho Marx 34. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest”-Henry David Thoreau 35. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living”- F. Scott Fitzgerald 36. “If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy”-Proverb 37. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”-George Bernard Shaw 38. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”-Mark Twain 39. “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” – Margaret Young 40. “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has” -Henry Ward Beecher 41. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom”-Arthur Schopenhauer 42. “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 43. “Happiness is an inside job”- William Arthur Ward 44. “Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it” – Don Herold 45. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for” – Joseph Addison 46. “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind” – Thomas Jefferson 47. “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 48. “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life” – William Morris 49. “Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill” – Johnny Carson 50. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness” – Andy Rooney Before You Go… These quotes have been hand picked from around the Internet, from the depths of books and from the deepest, darkest reaches of the library to help remind you how to find your happiness. But, there are hundreds of others out there that we haven’t even scraped the surface of. So, we’d like to ask you a question: What Is Your Favourite Quote About Happiness? It could be your favourite one from this list, or a personal one you’ve never shared before. But, we’d love to hear from you, so you can share the happiness with everyone else. Please let us know in the comments below! Read more at goweloveit.info/lifestyle/50-quotes-about-happiness-that-will-change-your-life/#FhHGfx7ZbHDmw6VP.99
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:01:25 +0000
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