Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
Heartwarming Make Yourself Happy quotations
Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.


Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life.
Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone's light when they are hopeless.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you.
Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy.
Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.
Finding happiness is like finding yourself.
You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

You must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others.
Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
You have to take an active role in making yourself happy.
That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity.
You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you.

When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create
To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction.
You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy.
Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination.
It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person;
it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.
Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.
Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.
People go tanning because they like to feel tan.
You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.