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A collection of inspirational wisdom, sayings and quotes on the subject of happiness and joy.
Laughter, joy and happiness is healthy for you. They say laughter is the best medicine. It can cure illness and extends life. A good laugh boosts the immune system, relieves depression and stress, relaxes all the body's muscles, is good exercise for the heart and helps prevent heart attacks, it cleanses the lungs, and provides an overall sense of well being.
We don't need to wait for someone else to bring us happiness - happiness is a choice we can make at any time we want. You can choose to look on the good side of things and take life more lightly, or you can choose to think gloomy and sad. It's up to you. Life is the movie you see through your own eyes - it's up to you how you take it.
Earth laughs in flowers.
To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.
... the soul would have no rainbow
if the eyes had no tears.
Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead.
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
If you cannot find happiness along the road, You will not find it at the end of the road.
To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Fear less, hope more.
Whine less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more.
Hate less, love more.
And all good things are yours.
Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush enounters with co-workers, family and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali
