Happier Quotes

• “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Benjamin Disraeli
• “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” Seneca
• “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” John Henry Jowett
• “Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.” Unknown
• “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” Seneca
• “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” Dennis Waitley
• “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
• “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” Andy Rooney
• “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” Morris West
• “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” Milton Erickson
• “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” L.M. Montgomery
• “If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.” Proverb
• “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
• “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw
• “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
• “Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” Buddha
• “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” Epictetus
• “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Marthe Troly-Curtin
• “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.” Groucho Marx
• “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Confucius
• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” Marquis de Condorcet
• “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” William Arthur Ward