Happiness Quotes

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.

~ Fennel Hudson

Many people have wonderful dreams, but die without realizing them. It is because they do not know how to get a hold of a dream and work with it to make it happen. Everything happens by laws. (From the Secrets To Divine Manifestations by Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

~ Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.

~ Lionel Suggs

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

~ Steve Maraboli

It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.

~ Steve Maraboli

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

~ Hannah Harrington

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

~ Franz Kafka

Where life ends, peace begins!

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

~ Dimity Powell

The Natural Law of Cause and Effect. (KARMA) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Our world will be a much better place to live, if such natural law of cause and effect can be widely acknowledged, taught, and respected. Also, when we treat the important people and loved ones in our life with immense respect, compassion, love, dignity and honesty (cause), we will experience the most profound and loving, solid relationships – which lead to happiness, fulfillment and peace of mind (effect). All that brings us to be more in touch with who we are because we know that we are living the life we were meant to lead. And yes, everything can change for the better when we see that all of the events and reasons of our life have meaning and great value.

~ Angie Karan

You are the biggest threat to your emotional and physical health if you don't set aside time for relaxation, joy, and personal growth.

~ Maddy Malhotra

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

~ Madeleine L'engle

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

~ Rick Moody

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

~ Barry Schwartz

A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so productive, that I lose the awareness of something better, and feel the despair of having come to the dead end of possibility.

~ Wendell Berry

Don’t let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.

~ Steve Maraboli

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

~ Melissa Marr

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

~ Augusta Scattergood

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

~ Diana

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

~ Alfred

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

~ Margaret Bourke-White

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

~ William Jennings Bryan

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit.

~ Bible

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

~ Edward Weeks

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

~ Sydney Smith

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.

~ Connie Chung

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that even if it does not produce the courage of a hero at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

~ Laurens Van Der Post

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

~ Erica Jong

Being brave means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being fearless means being without fear.

~ Penelope Leach

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

~ Anonymous