Life Quotes

Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.

~ Steve Maraboli

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

~ Matthieu Ricard

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

~ Zhuangzi

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

~ Marcel Duchamp

Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

~ Landon Parham

تعرفون اني لم أكن ملاكا طيلة الوقت , و أن الخلافات كانت تحدث من حيت لآخر , لكن لو نظرت للصورة الإجمالية من بعيد -حين تختفي البقع السوداء الصغيرةلأدركت اننا سعيدين حقا ..

~ أحمد خالد توفيق

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

~ Shannon L. Alder

All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the word, can't drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we need others to tell us were amazing, worthy and lovable, in order to feel good about ourselves, it is never enough. It goes into the bottomless pit where our inherent self-worth should be. It may feel like we are reaching out to receive love, but in actuality, we are seeking external noise to help drown out our negative core beliefs.Love blossoms from the inside out. That is why it is so important to do the work necessary to heal our emotional wounds, to love ourselves and stand strong in who we are. Only then, are we truly free to give and receive love, unconditionally and in abundance.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.

~ Steve Maraboli

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.

~ Steve Maraboli

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop trying to 'fix' yourself, you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Le bonheur est cette danse où l'on s'approche et l'on s'écarte sans se perdre. Il est même fait des larmes des longues séparations à condition que viennent les retrouvailles.

~ Timothée De Fombelle

People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

~ Claire Holden Rothman

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

~ Andrew Weil

Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.

~ Steve Maraboli

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.

~ Steve Maraboli

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

~ Deborah Day

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.

~ Steve Maraboli

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

~ Helen Keller

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

~ Ann Voskamp

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.

~ Nicholas Sparks

When true happiness shows up, the ego is bored with it: It's too plain, too ordinary, and it doesn't leave us feeling special or above the fray. It doesn't take away our problems, which is the ego's idea of happiness. The ego wants no more difficulties: no ore sickness, no more need for money, no more work, no more bad feelings, only unending pleasure and bliss. Such perfection is the ego's idea of a successful life. However, the happiness the ego dreams of will never be attained by anyone. The ego denies the reality of this dimension, where challenges are necessary to evolution and blissful states and pleasure come and go.

~ Gina Lake

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table. Macbeth

~ William Shakespeare

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

~ Wayne Coyne

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

~ Mohammed Naseehu Ali

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

~ Jennifer Niven

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

~ John Keats

.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

~ Gyula Krúdy

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

~ Ann Brashares

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

~ Karen Maezen Miller

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

~ Julian Barnes