Happiness Quotations Quotes

Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good to others; and if you want to lead an exceptional life, be good to everyone.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your smiles, not your frowns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.The stars surrender to a joyful heart. The universe surrenders to a loving soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy is God's smile, love is God's laughter.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Each time a star twinkles, God is winking at the universe.

~ Matshona Dhiliwayo

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of creating positive memories for children. An accumulation of a lifetime of memories does create a musical score that we can assess from an artistic if not scientific perspective. Each happy memory generates a beat of minor joy that when strung together form the musical notes demarking a person’s prosodic inner tune.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t try to make everyone happy, you can’t. The only ones who try are clowns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo