Happy Quotes - Page 10

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

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.

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.