Happiness Now 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

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

Kindness, May, Valentine's Day

Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Life, Positive, Happiness

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

Life, Happiness, Happy

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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

Positive, Being Happy, Appreciation

Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

Charles Spurgeon

Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

Love, Inspirational, Life

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I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Gerard Way

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

C. S. Lewis

Pain, Grief, Losing Everything

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Funny, Happiness, Wisdom

The Second Sin "Emotions" (1973)

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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Anthony Hopkins

Love, Hurt, Pain

"Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

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The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness, Inner Peace, Way

Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.86

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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

C. S. Lewis

Hurt, Pain, Boys

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It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Spiritual, Art, Ideas

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The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fate, Want, Danger

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America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Jonah Goldberg

Pursuit Of Happiness, America, Political

Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.20, Crown Forum

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Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Pain, Littles, Settling

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To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Life, Truth

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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