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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

January 18, 2025

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

January 5, 2025

"I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. #firstquote"

- Hunter S. Thompson

December 17, 2024

"The night breeze is blowing through my hair and the soft touch reminds me of your kisses. I wish I didn’t have to miss you this much."

- Unknown

November 7, 2024

"”A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”"

- Kurt Vonnegut

October 30, 2024

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

October 28, 2024

"I'm walking on sunshine, and don't it feel good!"

- Katrina and the Waves

October 24, 2024

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

- Louisa May Alcott

October 7, 2024

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

October 7, 2024

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

- Daphne du Maurier

October 7, 2024

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

- Martha Washington

October 7, 2024

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

- Anne Frank

October 7, 2024

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."

- Seneca

October 7, 2024

"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

October 7, 2024

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

- Martin Luther King Jr

October 7, 2024

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

- Steve Maraboli

October 7, 2024

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

October 7, 2024

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

- Guillaume Apollinaire

October 7, 2024

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

- Hunter S. Thompson

October 7, 2024

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

- Mother Teresa

October 7, 2024

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

- Honoré de Balzac

October 7, 2024

"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."

- Orhan Pamuk

October 7, 2024

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

October 7, 2024

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

October 7, 2024

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

October 7, 2024

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ―John Lennon"

- John Lennon

October 7, 2024

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."

- Stephen Chbosky

October 6, 2024

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

- Mahatma Gandhi

October 6, 2024

"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

October 6, 2024

"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end—it's not the final curtain—it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing."

- Ralph Lauren

October 6, 2024

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

October 6, 2024

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

October 6, 2024

"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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

- Carl Jung

October 6, 2024

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

- Bernard Meltzer

October 6, 2024

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

- Helen Keller

October 6, 2024

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

October 6, 2024

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

October 6, 2024

"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese Proverb

October 6, 2024

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

- Andrew Carnegie

October 6, 2024

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you."

- Lao Tzu

October 6, 2024

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

October 6, 2024

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

October 6, 2024

"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."

- Andre Maurois

October 6, 2024

"If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness."

- Andy Rooney

October 6, 2024

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it."

- Groucho Marx

October 6, 2024

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

- Albert Schweitzer

October 6, 2024

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

- James Oppenheim

October 6, 2024

"I’d far rather be happy than right any day."

- Douglas Adams

October 6, 2024

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

October 6, 2024

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

October 6, 2024

"It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

- L.M. Montgomery

October 6, 2024

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

October 6, 2024

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

October 6, 2024

"Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering."

- Winnie the Pooh

October 6, 2024

"t’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” —"

- Lucille Ball

October 6, 2024

"If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else."

- Chinese Proverb

October 6, 2024

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

October 6, 2024

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice..."

- unknown

October 6, 2024

"To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness."

- Mary Stuart

October 6, 2024

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

- Aristotle

October 6, 2024