Inspirational/ Happiness Quotes by Famous People.

Inspirational/ Happiness Quotes...

“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”
Eckhart Tolle

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”
Unknown

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
Albert Camus

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.'
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
Ashley Montagu

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter

“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

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
Mary Stuart

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
Seneca

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
Dennis Waitley

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”
Winnie the Pooh

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius

“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 that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller

“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
Seneca

“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

“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

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”

Dalai Lama

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
Albert Einstein

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
Friedrich Schiller

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
Herman Hesse

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
Martha Washington

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”
Rose Lane

“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
Unknown

“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky

“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

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
John Henry Jowett

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
Confucius

“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
Proverb

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
Buddha

“The grass is always greener where you water it.”
Unknown