Happiness quotes

Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

No matter what happens, always be yourself!

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Never compare yourself or your achievements with others, but make your comparisons only with yourself.

Tell yourself every morning as you go to work that you love your job. Think of it as interesting, even fascinating.

In a world of individuals, comparison is a senseless activity.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

The purpose of life... is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

For myself I am an optimist, it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

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.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

How many things I have no need of!

Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

Simplify, simplify.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Let us cultivate our garden.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Laughter is America's most important export.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day.

Nourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'

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.

This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.

It takes a very long time to become young.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.

Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.