Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
— John Lennon
Competitive Birthday Happy quotations

Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Act your age, not your shoe size.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Never regret anything that made you smile.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky.
My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love.
Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday.
I tell them, a paternity suit.

Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Live your life to the fullest.
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Only a few things are really important.
Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy of all.
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Some people try to turn back their odometers.
Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'