Life and Happiness Quotes

Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless.
     - Richard Denny -

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
     - Mark Houlahan -

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
     - Garth Brooks -

God never sends us more than we can handle.
     - Mother Theresa -

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money. You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
     - Susanna Clark -

You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived.
     - A saying on death -

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
     - Epictetus -

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.
     - Zig Ziglar -

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
     - Benjamin Disraeli -

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
     - Dale Carnegie -

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.
     - Og Mandino -

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool
     - John Mason Good -

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
     - Robert G. Ingersoll -

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
     - Mark Twain -

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved
     - George Sand -

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
     - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy -

There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will.
     - Epictetus -

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
     - Norman Vincent Peale -

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
     - James Oppenheim -

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
     - Author unknown -

It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, but only thirteen to smile.
     - Author unknown -

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
     - Henry David Thoreau -

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
     - Martha Washington -

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
     - Paramhansa Yogananda -

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody
     - Chinese Proverb -

Don’t spend your precious time asking “Why isn’t the world a better place?” It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is “How can I make it better?” To that there is an answer.
     - Leo F. Buscaglia -

We smile because we are happy. But we also become happy because we smile. Act the part and you’ll become the part.
     - Author Unknown -

Never dwell on what you have lost, only on what you have left. Count your blessings. You’ll always find plenty. Your most prized possessions are your unexpired years
     - Author Unknown -

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
     - Brian Tracy -

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
     - Frederick Langbridge -

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
     - Joseph Addison -

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us
     - Helen Keller -

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
     - Og Mandino -

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
     - Eileen Caddy -

The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
     - Harry Lauder -

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
     - Indian Proverb -

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
     - Brian Tracy -

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
     - Dale Carnegie -

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
     - Zig Ziglar -

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
     - Carol Burnett -

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
     - Charles M. Schu -