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.

  175 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  148 Copy quote
• 

  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)

  207 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  1296 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  1305 Copy quote

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  38 Copy quote

• 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

  77 Copy quote
• 

  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

  169 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  29 Copy quote

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

  Zoe Sugg

  Thinking, Three, Very Sad

  29 Copy quote

• I don’t have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.

  Luke Jensen

  Thinking, Worry, Busy

  6 Copy quote

• False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

  Kyle Cease

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Mar 14, 2013

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Happiness, Hug, Destructive

  5 Copy quote

• So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Optimism, Challenges

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Spring, Would Be

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.146, First Avenue Editions

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

  Chaim Potok

  Tea, Afternoon Tea, Cups Of Tea

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

  Rudolf Bing

  Years, Remember, Let Me

  4 Copy quote

• It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Flying, World, Royal

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1864, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Appreciate, Understanding

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.

  Katrina Kaif

  Things In Life, Painful, Results

  81 Copy quote

• We focus on the best, fun, and happy things, and people want that. Being happy never goes out of style.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Fun, People, Focus

  "Lilly Pulitzer, designer of trademark tropical dresses, dies aged 81", www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2013.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source