Quotes About Happiness

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

Why feel blue when there's sooooo many other colors you can feel.

Pour yourself a cockytale - a delicious blend of persuasive happy facts and/or marvelous memories - prepared just for you.

And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.

I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.

My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness.

and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression.

Now while it's hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it's on my own wall, perhaps it will be different -- once it's here all the time, every time I lift my eyes ... when I come into the living room in the morning and in the evening ... Will it make me happy? Yes, a voice inside him said, it will make you happy.

I've got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

True happiness, self-development, freedom, comes from inside - and is expressed externally in bright faces, a big smile, and plenty of laughing. Just look at the Dalai Lama.

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AND YOU HAVE TO have, I think, a similar sense of humor. That was a very important part of our life together. In fact, just two weeks before he died, we were talking one night, and he said something and I just dissolved in laughter, and he looked at me so self-satisfied and said, "I can still make you laugh after all these years!" And he could.

Human nature is such that our happiness depends on reliable, secure, and predictable social relationships, and without them we feel lost.

get into something that you love, that you have an aptitude for, and where you're totally happy.