"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
Inspiration
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness
"If you want to be happy, be."
- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
- Mark Twain
Compassion
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- Dalai Lama
Happiness
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."
- John Lennon
Happiness
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
- Frederick Keonig
Gratitude
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama
Compassion
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
- Greg Anderson
Joy
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Joy
"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are"
- Goldie Hawn
Self-confidence
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
- John Lennon
Relationships
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
- Mother Teresa
Love
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
- Dalai Lama
Happiness
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
- Omar Khayyam
Happiness
"Happiness isn’t a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
- Anne Frank
Happiness
"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things."
- Walt Disney
Happiness
"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy. It’s all that matters."
- Audrey Hepburn
Happiness
"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
Perseverance
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition
"You become what you believe."
- Oprah Winfrey
Belief in Self
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Overcoming Obstacles
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
- Marie Curie
Ambition
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Facing Fears
"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss
Happiness
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Buddha
Belief
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- E.E. Cummings
Courage
"If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner."
- Karen Salmansohn
Happiness
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- Anais Nin
Courage
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
Motivation
"True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller
Happiness
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contribution
"Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
- Helen Keller
Happiness
"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- A.A. Milne
Belief in Self
"Happiness is the highest form of health."
- Dalai Lama
Health
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"
- Dolly Parton
Motivation
"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours."
- Dolly Parton
Happiness
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill
Positivity
"Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud."
- Maya Angelou
Compassion
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
Ambition
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'"
- Audrey Hepburn
Positivity
"Whoever is happy will make others happy."
- Anne Frank
Happiness
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
- Lucille Ball
Self-care
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-awareness
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-confidence
"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."
- Walt Disney
Imagination
"Peace begins with a smile."
- Mother Teresa
Peace
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."
- Nora Ephron
Empowerment
"Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things."
- Ann Brashares
Happiness
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Resilience
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."
- Marianne Williamson
Joy
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs
Ambition
"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
- Judy Garland
Self-confidence
"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."
- Muhammad Ali
Belief in Self
"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
- Marilyn Monroe
Happiness
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."
- John Barrymore
Happiness
"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."
- Bob Marley
Happiness
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
- George Sand
Happiness
"Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
- Denis Waitley
Happiness
"The mere sense of living is happiness enough"
- Emily Dickinson
Happiness
"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
- Roald Dahl
Positivity
"A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others."
- Dalai Lama
Compassion
"Be happy with what you want. Be excited about what you get"
- Alan Cohen
Happiness
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness
"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."
- Olivia Newton John
Facing Fears
"It’s not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness."
- Charles Spurgeon
Happiness
"Smile at strangers and you just might change a life."
- Masashi Kishimoto
Happiness
"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness
"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go."
- Dodinsky
Happiness
"Turn your wounds into wisdom"
- Oprah
Happiness
"I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy."
- Vera Nazarian
Happiness
"You don’t need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are."
- Wiz Khalifa
Happiness
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"The healthiest response to life is joy."
- Deepak Chopra
Happiness
"The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."
- Socrates
Contentment
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
- Carl Bard
New Beginnings
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
- Socrates
Change
"You are your best thing."
- Toni Morrison
Self-esteem
"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."
- Serena Williams
Resilience
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"We will fail when we fail to try."
- Rosa Parks
Courage
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi
Achievement
"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Self-awareness
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Transformation
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Success
"Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hope
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Compassion
"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."
- Amanda Gorman
Resilience
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"Never regret anything that made you smile."
- Mark Twain
Reflection
"Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness."
- Christian Dior
Happiness
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Happiness
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
- Joseph Addison
Happiness
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- E. E. Cummings
Well-being
"You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing."
- Maurice Chevalier
Happiness
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
- Sydney J. Harris
Happiness
"True happiness is found inside the heart."
- Anurag Prakash Ray
Happiness
"Never feel guilty for doing what’s best for you."
- Dushant Isankar
Happiness
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
- Phyllis Diller
Optimism
"Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing laughter, hurried away."
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
"Being happy never goes out of style."
- Lilly Pulitzer
Happiness
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are."
- JP Morgan
Determination
"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
- John Stuart Mill
Contentment
"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
- C.S. Lewis
Adversity
"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."
- Alexander the Great
Motivation
"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Happiness
"Independence is happiness."
- Susan B. Anthony
Happiness
"Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming."
- Mike Dooley
Motivation
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King
Achievement
"Be somebody who makes everyone feel like a somebody."
- Courtney Shields
Happiness
"And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."
- Gordon B. Hinchley
Happiness
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
- Milton Berle
Joy
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit."
- Hosea Ballou
Happiness
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Some days you just have to create your own sunshine."
- Sam Sundquist
Positivity
"But if you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken."
- Selena Gomez
Happiness
"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."
- Karen Kaiser Clark
Growth
"You are never too old to reinvent yourself."
- Steve Harvey
New Beginnings
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
- Dr. Seuss
New Beginnings
"Simplicity makes me happy."
- Alicia Keys
Happiness
"Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing."
- Jarod Kintz
Happiness
"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."
- Coco Chanel
Happiness
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start."
- Nido Qubein
Resilience
"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."
- Germany Kent
New Beginnings
"We grow through what we go through."
- Anonymous
Growth
"The older you get the better you get… unless you’re a banana."
- Betty White
Happiness
"This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun."
- Taylor Duvall
Balance
"Happiness is an inside job."
- Anonymous
Happiness
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
- Thomas Jefferson
Aspirations
"She wore a smile like a loaded gun."
- Atticus
Happiness
"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
New Beginnings
"Breathe in the good shit, breathe out the bullshit."
- Karen Salmansohn
Happiness
"My dream job would be the Karma Delivery Service."
- Bill Murray
Happiness
"Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth."
- (Attributed to various sources)
Joy
"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."
Happiness
"Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower."
Happiness
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
Happiness
"It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
Happiness
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Happiness
"Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results."
Happiness
"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."
Happiness
"Be happy with what have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness."
Happiness
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of your will."
Happiness
"Happiness is there for the taking — and making."
Happiness
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Happiness
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Happiness
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Happiness
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh."
Happiness
"How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now."
Happiness
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
Happiness
"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."
Happiness
"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens."
Happiness
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
Happiness
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Happiness
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
Happiness
"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path."
Happiness
"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."
Happiness
"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open."
Happiness
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy."
Happiness
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine."
Happiness
"Happiness is the best makeup."
Happiness
"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."
Self-esteem
"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are."
Happiness
"Some days, you just have to create your own sunshine."
Happiness
"When you focus on the good, the good gets better."
Positivity
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Happiness
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Happiness
"The best is yet to come."
Optimism
"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."
Happiness
"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
Happiness
"Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections."
Happiness
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
Happiness
"Happiness? That’s nothing more than good health and a poor memory."
Happiness
"True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability and all."
Happiness
"No rain, no flowers."
Growth
"Exist to be happy, not to impress."
Happiness
"Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again."
Happiness
"Trust the next chapter because you are the author."
Happiness
"You’ve survived 100% of your worst days."
Happiness
"Life is better when you cry a little, laugh a lot, and are thankful for everything you’ve got."
Happiness
"The secret to having it all… is knowing you already do."
Happiness
"Life is better when you’re laughing."
Happiness
"Laughter is the best medicine. But if you’re laughing without any reason, you need medicine."
Happiness
"True happiness is found by living in the present moment"
Happiness
"It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste."
Happiness
"They say money doesn’t bring happiness, but everyone still goes out there to see it for themselves."
Happiness
"Always keep your chin up, otherwise you’re just staring at your boobs all day."
Happiness
"Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like."
Happiness
"Some people call me crazy. I prefer the term happy with a twist."
Happiness
"Never let anyone treat you like you’re regular glue. You’re glitter glue."
Happiness