Best 227 quotes in «being happy quotes» category

The foundation of my happiness isn't because my experiences are much better than the man who believes his world is falling apart. Instead, it's because I frequently interpret my life better than a negative minded person.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

To know the outcome of a desire means you are relying on what you already know. True change comes in colors you've never imagined. Expect serendipity and surprises ~

Some things could come into in your life through luck, but happiness is undoubtedly not one of them. The activation of happiness in one's life is impossible without the presence consistent positive thoughts and beliefs in one's mind.

Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Success and happiness are always missed by those who leave the present unattended to.

When there is no purpose of thought or activities to keep us firmly planted in routines, we connect to our personal spirit. Then the adventure begins ~

We sometimes get together with others hoping their mood will elevate ours. In a way, we want to bring leftovers to the potluck and we're hoping to fill our plates with apple pie. Energy tells us why this won't happen. When we show up for a buffet of conversations, we will be drawn to the moods that reflect what we brought with us. Our feelings, beliefs, and thoughts seek similar energy fields.

When we shift from trying to figure it out to feeling our way, insight arrives.

When you're happy, you just are-you don't think about it.

When you're happy, you just are-you don't think about.

When you're scared, invite your spirit out of hiding. Wear pointed shoes with build in sass > Let your wings take you where your heart trembles > Wave the want that remembers your magic > Bring your green umbrella without apologies.

Why choose to live unhappily when living happily is already an option available to you?

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

You are the only one who could delay your happiness, because a peaceful state of mind is impossible without unconditional self-love.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

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

When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.

And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness; if you’re searching for tranquility; if you’re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.

You have to move forward in life. You can’t sit in the same place, unless you want to, that’s a choice too. But you can’t sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable.” Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. “Country.” Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Don't find a reason to smile. Find a way.

Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Being happy never goes out of style.