Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. — Robert G. Ingersoll
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank
Happiness is a continuous creative activity. — Baba Amte
I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved. — Selena
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. — Seneca
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. — Seneca
Short Happy Present Quotes
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. — Walt Whitman
Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life. — Steve Maraboli
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. — Johnny Cash
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. — John D. Rockefeller III
Today is the perfect day to be happy.
True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. — Mark Manson
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with. — Tyler Perry
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur. — Sydney Banks
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. — Sophia Bush
Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now. — Marshall Goldsmith
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. — Groucho Marx
I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around. — Taylor Swift
Happy Choose Day Quotes
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
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. — Henri Nouwen
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow — Douglas Pagels
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. — Susan Faludi
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. — Joel Osteen
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice. — John McLeod
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. — Kahlil Gibran
I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die. — Angel Haze
Happy Day Quotes
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
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. — Dalai Lama
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. — Zion Lee
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now — Willie Nelson
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
Happy Occasion Quotes
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. — Bob Hope
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies. — Ernest Becker
As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline. — Wentworth Miller
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. — I Ching
The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. — William James
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things. — Dan Aykroyd
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light. — Henry David Thoreau
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. — Alexander Pope
...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Happy Things Quotes
Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. — Zig Ziglar
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change. — Tony Gaskins
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson
Christmas Present Quotes
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Douglas Coupland
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face
and tell him you have received his Christmas gift. — John R. Rice
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. — Taylor Caldwell
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! — Dolly Parton
When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. — Chris Brown
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. — Stephen Leacock
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands. — T. D. Jakes
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins
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. — Ariana Grande
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
Happy Experience Quotes
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him. — Neymar
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey
It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life. — Claudia Cardinale
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. — Jean Plaidy
I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away. — Harriet Tubman
Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness. — S. N. Goenka
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. — Timothy Leary
God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life. — Albert Schweitzer
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert
Happy Moments Quotes
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam
Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future. — Prince Charles
I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way. — Grace Kelly
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD — Rick Warren
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do. — Byron Katie
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment. — Simon Sinek
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 — Marcel Pagnol
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. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. — Dorothy Parker
Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick. — Pema Chodron
Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. — Kid Cudi
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. — Jim Rohn
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present. — Octavio Paz
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. — Henry David Thoreau
To live in the present moment is the highest calling. It’s the source of all happiness. — Naval Ravikant
The Present is the womb of the future.
A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
Look after the present and the future will look after itself. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. — Roy T. Bennett
Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, the way it is. — Naval Ravikant
The research suggests that, with a few exceptions, major events or traumas that occur even three months earlier have little to no effect on our present happiness. The reason is that we are able to make our own happiness. We change the way we see the world so that we can feel better. — William Ury
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. — Gail Buckley
If you go through life believing that happiness is somewhere in your future, it always will be – it will never be where you are now. — Steven Bartlett
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future. — Soren Kierkegaard
[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives. — Jean Vanier
In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present. — Danny Devito
When we make an effort to include things we love in our everyday lives the everyday lives the benefits are tenfold; we are happier, healthier, more present, and more resilient to stress. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. — Jerome K. Jerome
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence. — Saint Francis de Sales
Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future. — Noah Levine
By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present. — Wayne Dyer
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. — Doug Horton
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present. — Noah Levine
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists. — Leon Brown
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present. — Thomas S. Monson
Concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. — Buddha
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
At any given moment the choice to be happy is present – we just have to choose to be happy. — Steve Maraboli
Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light. — Marvin J. Ashton
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. — N. T. Wright
I'm very happy with what the gods have given me. I take life as she presents herself to me, and whatever you see in my face is what I have earned. — Eartha Kitt
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