happiness

happiness

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Stranger in a Strange Land
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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. Diary: A Novel
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. The Conquest of Happiness
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Invisible Monsters
If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
가장 어두운 순간일지라도 불켜는 것을 기억해내기만 한다면, 행복은 찾을 수 있다. 해리포터와아즈카반의죄수 (J. K. Rowling / ISBN:8989708699)
Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. The Impact of Science on Society
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Notes from Underground
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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. How to Win Friends and Influence People
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.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Happy girls are the prettiest
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Whoever is happy will make others happy. The Diary of a Young Girl
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. The Count of Monte Cristo
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. Notebook
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. 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.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps. — What more can the heart of a man desire? Family Happiness and Other Stories
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. Anna Karenina
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The gratest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks. Marlene Dietrich's Abc
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. The Art of Power
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit. My Story
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Laughter is poison to fear. A Game of Thrones
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. A Guide To Happiness
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. Life Expectancy
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.