Quotes on Being Happy

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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