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Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Sep 10, 2025
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
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.
Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. 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 that 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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
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.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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