Happy Quotes - Page 17

• You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

  Gabby Douglas

  God Has A Plan, Rejoice, Plans

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• Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that the happiest times in your life are when you are not thinking. It's a wonderful thing to stand outside your ego, to surrender to the flow, and to participate fully in a hobby, in nature, in meditation, in prayer, in art, in dance, in sport, and in the moment.

  Robert Holden

  Sports, Art, Prayer

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.92, Hay House, Inc

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Women, Leader, Sorrow

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

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Patience, Powerful, Inner Peace

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Men, Bees, Dolphins

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• My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Rodney Dangerfield" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2004.

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

  Ann Landers

  Being Happy, Funny Inspirational, Funny Valentines Day

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• A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Obsession, Obsessed

  "Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge". Book by V. A. Howard, 1974.

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• Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Moving, Blood, Unhappy

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• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

  John Assaraf

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sorry

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 05, 2014

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• Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

  Dalai Lama

  New Year, Our World, Years

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• Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Peaceful, Words Of Wisdom

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Greed, Inner Peace

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• I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Happy Life, Thinking

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• By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Responsibility, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 10, 2015

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• We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Peaceful

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• The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Keys, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2013

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• Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

  Timothy Keller

  Neighbor, Products, Related

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.127, Penguin

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• We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.52, Penguin

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• Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Good Morning, Laughing

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• All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

  Shantideva

  Happiness, Desire

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