Happy Things Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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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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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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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Einstein: A Centenary Volume". Book by A.P. French, p. 32, 1980.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

Love, Happiness, Sad

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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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Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. 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 that 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.

Shakti Gawain

Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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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

Life, Happiness, Happy

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Robertson Davies

Happiness, Happy, May

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

James M. Barrie

Life, Happiness, Dream

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Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life

Bram Stoker

Nice, Love You, Broken

Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.50, Zillmann Publishing

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For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.

Zoe Sugg

Thinking, Three, Very Sad

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In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Daniel Handler

Book, Happy Endings, Middle

"A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, March 17, 2009.

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I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

Natsuki Takaya

Giving Up, Fun, Believe

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We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Libba Bray

School, Exercise, Class

"Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.

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If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

Daniel Handler

Book, Reading, Would Be

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It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

Charlotte Bronte

Forgiveness, Strong, Hate

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Secret, Holes, Middle

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

Saul Bellow

Mistake, Recovery, Simplicity

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But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring, Rain, Fall

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You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

Isobelle Carmody

Stars, Fall, Heart

"Darkfall: Book One Of The Legendsong". Book by Isobelle Carmody, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

William Shakespeare

Father, Son

William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

Margot Kidder

Crazy, Eye, People

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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