Happiness

Follow your bliss. ~ Joseph Campbell

Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~ Richard Wagner 1813

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~ Chinese Proverb

Scatter Joy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have. ~ Unknown

Happiness held is a seed. Happiness shared is the flower. ~ unknown

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess. ~ Dale Carnegie

Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott

Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open. ~ John Barrymore

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~ Violeta Parra

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see. ~ Taoist Proverb

Happiness is found along the way, not at the end of the road. ~ Unknown

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ~ Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~ Aristotle

Enjoy life ... This is not a rehearsal. ~ Source Unknown

Nobody ever died of laughter. ~ Max Beerbohm

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't. ~ Charles "Tremendous" Jones

Happiness is the ability to enjoy the passage of time. ~ A. Einstein

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. ~ W.J. Bryan

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Happiness requires problems… ~ L. Hollingworth

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~ Unknown

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~ Robert Anthony

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. ~ Robert Frost

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Unknown

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~ Victor Borge

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius

Happiness is not a goal. it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. ~ Unknown

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~ Mildred Barthel

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ George Burns

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sun rise. ~ William Blake

Happiness begins when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. ~ Coco Chanel

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. ~ Source Unknown

Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucius

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ~ Eddie Cantor

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. ~ Chamfort

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. ~ Roy Goodman

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ~ Joseph Addison

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ~ Charles Lamb

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ~ Kahlil Gibran

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

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 grow it under his feet. ~ James Oppenheim

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. ~Unknown

If you want to be happy, be. ~ Leo Tolstoy