Happy Life Quotes - Page 5

• If you have a dream, only share it with those that are going to support you. Walk toward it on a daily basis and don't let anyone's doubting or negativity throw you off your path.

  Allison Maslan

  Life, Dream, Support You

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• We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.

  Mastin Kipp

  Giving, Purpose, Want

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• We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Life, Mistake, Compassion

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.84, Penguin

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Goal, Unhappy, Definitions

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• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Perfect, Virtue, Mortality

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• May we all be doomed to a happy life.

  Alethea Kontis

  May, Doomed

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Kids, Parenting

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• God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

  Rick Warren

  Character, Comfort, Holy

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• Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Opportunity, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Broken, Stronger

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• Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

  Eric Weiner

  Meaningful, Laughter, People

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.325, Random House

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• A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

  Joel Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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• 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.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Intuition, Doe

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• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 02, 2011

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• There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Romantic, Valentine

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.252, Penguin

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• That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

  Horace

  Life, Past, Men

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• And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Order, Joy

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• Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Judging, Want

  "Words of Wisdom". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 2010.

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• Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
  And make two lovers happy.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Two, Space

  'Martinus Scriblerus...or The Art of Sinking in Poetry' ch. 11 (Miscellanies, 1727)

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• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

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• I wish you all a long and happy life

  Alice Sebold

  Long, Wish, Lovely Bones

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don’t you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That’s what’s important, Torimou. (Theo)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Hurt, Real

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• Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  New Year, Moving, Iphone

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