Happiness Quotes

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Dr. Seuss

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Robert A. Heinlein

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Marthe Troly-Curtin

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925."

Frederick Lewis Donaldson

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Albert Camus

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama XIV

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

John Lennon

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

Audrey Hepburn

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

Charles M. Schulz

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

Jonathan Safran Foer

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."

Dale Carnegie

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

George Burns

"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

Chuck Palahniuk

"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."

Lauren Oliver

"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

Mark Twain

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."

Paul Simon

"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

Jon Krakauer

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."

Bette Midler

"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."

Orhan Pamuk, Snow

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."

Ayn Rand

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."

Sylvia Plath

"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."

Steve Maraboli

"please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you."

Stephen Chbosky

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

Haruki Murakami

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

George Washington Burnap

"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

Jonathan Safran Foer

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

Alexandre Dumas

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

Steve Maraboli

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

Hunter S. Thompson

"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon."

Edward Lear

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

Charlotte Brontë

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Guillaume Apollinaire

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

Betty Smith

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

Douglas Adams

"People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility."

Katja Millay

"Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

Steve Maraboli

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

Steve Maraboli

"Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."

Ann Brashares

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

C. JoyBell C.

"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."

Jane Austen

"Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for."

Rainbow Rowell

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."

Steve Maraboli

"When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything."

Stephen Richards

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