Happiness Quotes

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

~ Cornelia Funke

That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from whence he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.

~ Sherry Argov

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.

~ T.h. White

Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared.“Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.”“I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.

~ Richelle Mead

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

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

~ Henrik Ibsen

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.

~ Steve Maraboli

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

~ Helen Keller

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

~ Dr. Seuss

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

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

~ Audrey Hepburn

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

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

~ Paul Simon

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

~ Steve Maraboli

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

~ Stephen Chbosky

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

~ Steve Maraboli

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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

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

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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.

Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.

~ Roy T. Bennett

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

~ Steve Maraboli

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You are in charge of your own happiness, you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

~ Dany Laferrière