Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
— Omar Khayyam
Reckoning Be Happy quotations
Money is numbers and numbers never end.
If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
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.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
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. French translation

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy.
But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

My main goal in life is to just be happy.
I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The purpose of life is not to be happy.
It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
When you are alone, bless the solitude;
when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.