We all wish to be happy all the time, while it may not be possible, we can surely try to be happy most of the time. Happiness will be doubled if you share it, hence I am sharing some of the inspirational and motivational quotes by famous wise people to inspire us to be bit more happy today! Smile and hug someone you love today.
No one in this world can dictate you where you can be HAPPY, but only yourself because true happiness comes from within and not from anyone else. -Unknown
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -Thomas Jefferson early draft for the Declaration of Independence (June 1776)
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand
I shall take the heart… for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
-The Tinman in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
– Lord Byron
Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
-Helen Keller in Optimism
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
– Scottish Proverb
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
-George Santayana in The Life of Reason
Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight.
– Hazelmarie Elliott
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller The Simplest Way to be Happy
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
– Sydney J. Harris
In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
-Santa Claus in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
– Amy Lowell
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
– Eric Hoffer
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
-Elizabeth Gilbert in w:Eat, Pray, Love
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
– Mark Twain
Happiness is possible only in a relationship with a partner. Imagine that some fellow who has lived his life as a singer goes to an uninhabited island and sings as loudly as possible. If there is no one there to hear him, he will not be happy. To realize that we exist for the sake of others is the great achievement that changes our lives. When we realize that our life is not ours alone but is meant to be for the sake of the other, we begin to follow a path different from the one we were on. Just as singing to yourself will not make you happy, there is no joy without a partner. Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.
-Sun Myung Moon, 2009
Happiness Books To Read:
Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, The: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use ItThere are many how to be happy books that also helps worrier like myself. Check out for yourself here.
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
– Robert Anthony
There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils ‘grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
– Sophocles
Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
-Simon Soloveychik, Parenting for Everyone
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
– James M. Barrie
There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils ‘grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by product.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God.
-Blaise Pascal
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
– Berke Breathed
Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.
-Henry Giles
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
– Booth Tarkington
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
-Jane Porter
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
– Mark Twain
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
– Buddha
