Quotes of Happiness
Robert A. Heinlein
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Abraham Lincoln
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
Chuck Palahniuk
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Ernest Hemingway
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Dalai Lama XIV
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
Albert Camus
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
John Lennon
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes About Life
Dr. Seuss
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
Marilyn Monroe
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
William W. Purkey
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey
Mae West
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous
Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
André Gide
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
Allen Saunders
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
J.K. Rowling
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Quotes About Success
Winston S. Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
W.C. Fields
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields
Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein
Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville
Dr. Seuss
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
W.P. Kinsella
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
― W.P. Kinsella
Truman Capote
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote
Bette Midler
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler
Albert Einstein
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
― Albert Einstein
Winston S. Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Salvador DalÃ
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador DalÃ
Coco Chanel
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel
Quotes About Inspiration
Do one thing every day that scares you.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Kurt Vonnegut
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Neil Gaiman
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
Paulo Coelho
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Langston Hughes
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
Trisha Yearwood
“What's meant to be will always find a way”
― Trisha Yearwood
Walt Disney Company
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
Maya Angelou
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou
Chad Sugg
“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
Saul Bellow
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates
Maya Angelou
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
Lance Armstrong
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
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