Quotes on Happy

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children.

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.