Life Quotes

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

~ Heather Anastasiu

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.

~ Steve Maraboli

Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.

~ Steve Maraboli

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.

~ Andy Warhol

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

~ Steve Maraboli

Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.

~ Steve Maraboli

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

~ Bethenny Frankel

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.

~ Pablo

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

~ Syrie James

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.

~ Julian Gough

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

~ Shannon L. Alder

At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.

~ Steve Maraboli

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.

~ Steve Maraboli

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.

~ John Connolly

Wake up! If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time left to make use of your life and consider who you are, you'd not waste time on self-indulgence or fear, lethargy or ambition. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

~ Dan Millman

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

~ Dick Francis

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

~ Steve Maraboli

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.

~ Steve Maraboli

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

~ Daniel Willey

Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

~ Jason Mraz

Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

~ Steve Maraboli

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

~ Doug Coupland

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

~ Daniel Willey

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

~ Deepak Chopra

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

~ David O. Mckay

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

~ Anna Pavlova

There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.

~ Lloyd C. Douglas

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

~ Bethenny Frankel

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.

~ Todd Stocker

There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together, behaving as though no one else existed.

~ Steve Maraboli

The best parts of life are the things we can't plan. And it's a lot harder to find happiness if you're only searching in one place. Sometimes, you just have to throw away the map. Admit that you don't know where you're going and stop pressuring yourself to figure it out. Besides...a map is a life someone else already lived. It's more fun to make your own.

~ Cora Carmack

Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.

~ Rodolfo Costa