Being Happy Quotes

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

If you have "needing money" in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn't bring happiness - but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now.
How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.

When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.