Being Happy Quotations | Page 2

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

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

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

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.

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

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Being happy never goes out of style.

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it.

When you learn to die, you learn to live.

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

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Don't Worry Be Happy

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Happiness is a state of activity.

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

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

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.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

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

Every man has his secret sorrows...

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.