Happiness Quotes

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

~ Thomas Browne

Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

~ Stephen Richards

The most important reason for your “no” is that you need your downtime so you won’t behave like a jerk because you’re depleted. And you don’t want to battle an appetite spiked by the stress of overcommitment. But that’s your secret; others don’t need that information. So just smile, say no, thank you, and keep moving.

~ Holly Mosier

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

~ Stephen Richards

Today I am even richer.

~ Stephen Richards

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

~ Stephen Richards

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

~ Anne Frank

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

~ Stephen Richards

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

~ Janet Fitch

You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

~ Deborah Day

I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn’t matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!And it has nothing to do with love.

~ Dan Pearce

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

~ Alfred Bester

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

~ Jean Vanier

The future never happens, there will always be a future.

~ Stephen Richards

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

~ Sri Aurobindo

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

~ Maria Mitchell

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

~ Ron Rash

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

~ Michael Neill

Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.

~ T.m. Brenner

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

~ W.p. Kinsella

Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.

~ Deborah Day

While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within.

~ Stephen Richards

Life isn't about counting what you've earned or what you've done for others. I think life is in those in-between moments when you do something, and you feel really, truly happy just by doing it.

~ Snigdha Rai

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.

~ T.h. White

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.

~ Stephen Richards

The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!

~ François Lelord

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

~ Stephen Richards

Many people see happiness only in their future.

~ François Lelord

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.

~ Jess C. Scott

Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counter Where he is not supposed to be. How wonderful you are, I say. How clever, if you Needed me, To wake me. He thought he would a lecture and deeply His eyes begin to shine.He tumbles onto the couch for more compliments.He squirms and squeals: he has done something That he needed And now he hears that it is okay. I scratch his ears. I turn him over And touch him everywhere. He isWild with the okayness of it. Then we walk, then He has breakfast, and he is happy.This is a poem about Percy.This is a poem about more than Percy.Think about it.

~ Mary Oliver

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

~ Stephen Richards

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. A photograph couldn't ever tell its story. It's like something you have to live to understand. One of those freak collisions of fizzing meteors and looming celestial bodies and floating debris and one single beautiful red ball that bursts into your life and through your body like an enormous firework. Where things shift into focus for a moment, and everything makes sense. And it becomes one of those things inside you, a pearl among sludge, one of those big exaggerated memories you can invoke at any moment to peel away a little layer of how you felt, like a lick of ice cream. The flavor of grace.

~ Craig Silvey

Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy.

~ Stephen Richards

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

~ Jodi Picoult

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.

~ Josh Billings

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

~ Jane Austen

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

~ Sonya Hartnett

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

~ Albert Camus

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

~ Stephen Richards