Inspirational Quotes About Life And Happiness Biography
source link (google.com.pk)Life is short, live life to the fullest and enjoy every moment. Choose to be joyful and happy. Here's a collection of quotes on joy and happiness . Feel free to use these quotes for a letter, a card or an email. If you have an inspirational quote you would like to share feel free to add it by leaving a comment.
"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is"
--C.S. Lewis
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
--Aristotle
"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."
--Henri Nouwen
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
--Mark Twain
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
--Publilius Syrus
"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
--Anonymous
"It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart."
--Martin Luther
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
--Robert Frost
"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
--Cynthia Nelms
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go."
--Martha Washington
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
--Storm Jameson
"Joy delights in Joy"
--William Shakespeare
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
--Roy M. Goodman
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."
--Leo Tolstoy
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
--Helen Keller
"I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
--Oprah Winfrey"
"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."
--Dale Carnegie
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
--Frederick Keonig
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
--Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Happiness is a state of activity."
--Aristotle
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live."
--Bertrand Russell
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste, that they hurry past it."
--Kierkegaard
"Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
--Helen Keller
"Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." ---François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are."
--John B. Sheerin
"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
--Henry David Thoreau
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
--Marcel Proust
"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."
--Norm Papernick
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy...is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?"
--Abdul-Baha
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
--Storm Jameson
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
--Rita Mae Brown
"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."
--C.S. Lewis
"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be"
--Marcel Pagnol quotes
"If you want to be happy, be."
--Leo Tolstoy
"The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance."
--Karl Barth
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Joy is not in things; it is in us"
--Richard Wagner
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
--Vincent Van Gogh
"Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing."
--Matt Biondi
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed."
--Frank McKinney
"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."
--E.L. Konigsburg
"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
--James Freeman Clarke
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
--Oscar Levant
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
--Margaret Young
"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
--Nicole Kidman
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
--Albert Camus
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
--Kahlil Gibran
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
--Albert Einstein
"Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them."
--Anonymous
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
--Christian Nestell Bovee
"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."
--Albert Camus
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
--Author Unknown
"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."
--Montaigne
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
--Robert Anthony
"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
--C.P. Snow
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
--Martha Washington
"The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it."
--Andrew Matthews
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
--Victor Hugo
"Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society."
--Charles Gow
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
--Thich Nhat Hanh
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
--Buddha
"I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."
--Jesus Christ (John 15:11-12)
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
--Henry Ward Beecher
"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
--Norman MacEwan
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
--Bertrand Russell
"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure."
--Lawana Blackwell
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
--Mildred Barthel
"Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness."
--The Dalai Lama
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
--Joseph Campbell
"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
--Edith Wharton
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."
--James Openheim
"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
--Helen Keller
"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."
--Charles Langbridge Morgan
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
--Count Leo Tolstoy
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
--William Feather
Very nice Blog… keep on sharing its really helpful… It is a strange irony that just when we need inspiration the most, we often close our ears to the Inspirational quotes that could help us get through the rough times in life. Instead, we become cynical and depressed and want to give up. We feel like we were young and naive to believe in those words that used to inspire us so much.
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