Happy Quotes

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. —–Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. —Helen Keller

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. —Horace

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness.. it is generally the by-product of other activities. —-Aldous Huxley

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. —-Helen Keller

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. —-Norman Vincent Peale

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. —- Benjamin Franklin

You’ve got to drop something. You’ve got to drop illusions. You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. —-Anthony de Mello

The basic fact is that all sentient beings, particularly human beings, want happiness and do not want pain and suffering. —-Dalai Lama

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. —-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. —Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live–you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–or you will never be at all. —–~ Dan Millman

It you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal not to people or things.—-~ Albert Einstein