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.
When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.
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.
If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.
No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.
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.
If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.
Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.
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.
When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.
True riches belong to those who shun false ones.
Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.
To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.
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.
Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.
The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.
Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.
If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.
Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.
Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.
Count your smiles, not your frowns.
Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm.
Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.
Do we need to wait until the next life to experience true happiness? Of course not; we can experience it now. By making that choice to be happy and optimistic, we can have a little bit of Heaven on Earth.
~ Lindsey Rietzsch
Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
~ Nikita Gill
Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
The secret to happiness is elusive because it is a paradoxical truth. To gain happiness, you must first cease pursuing it. Things perceived to provide happiness are like shiny, pretty bubbles that lure us this way and that way, chasing after their glossy buoyancy. But once they are handled, they “pop”—empty—vanishing along with the hope that happiness could ever be captured. Happiness cannot be caught or won or purchased or even handled. Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.
Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.
Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.
Laugh to be refreshed, discover to be surprised, accept and celebrate differences to be happy
~ Val Uchendu
Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.
Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.
You learn more from your tears than your smiles.
