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"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."
Beatrix Potter
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings
"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."
Beatrix Potter
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings
Suzanne Nicker
"Take time to do what makes you happy."
Unknown... but very wise ;)
"Optimism and humor are the grease and the glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity."
Philip Butler (Vietnam POW)
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
Psalms
"When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember."
Mike Dooley
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happy Quotes :) :)
1. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King, Jr.
2.Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up, I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it!! Kevin Aucoin
3. Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dog. Josh Billings
5. "Take time to do what makes you happy."
Unknown... but very wise ;)
6. "Optimism and humor are the grease and the glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity."Philip Butler (Vietnam POW)
7. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey
8. The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days. Psalms
9. "When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember." Mike Dooley
10. "I Never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things in life would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense." Coretta Scott King
11. Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
12, "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." Ralph Waldo Emmerson
13. "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. "Our first problem is not to learn, but to unlearn, to clear out some of the old assumptions." Gloria Steinem (Daring to be yourself
16. "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." Groucho Marx
17. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” " Steve Maraboli
18. "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
19. "A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position then a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help." Jean Kerr
20. "Be here now." Ram Dass
21. "Youth... Stay close to the young and a little rubs off." Alan Jay Lerner
22. "To every disadvantage, there is a corresponding advantage." W. Clement Stone
23."Be still and enjoy the little things that you generally miss." Me :)
24. "Say hello to everyone. They might ignore but chances are 90% that they won't." Me :)
25. "Instead of hating thunderstorms, sit quietly and watch the sky. It's pretty spectacular!!" Me :)
26. "Look for ways to be nice to someone. Don't expect anything in return." Me :)
27, "Go for a walk today. You never know what might happen!" Me :)
28. "A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." William Arthur Ward
29. "Once you have tasted the taste of the sky you will forever look up!" Leonardo Da Vinci
30. "Gray skies are just clouds passing over." Duke Ellington
31. "Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need Cloudy Skies..." Paulo Coelho
32. "I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot. " Vincent Van Gogh
33. "Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself. It makes you wonder if we shouldn't pull back and just all things to happen all by themselves"... Me...
34."Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." Doug Larson
35. 5. "Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there." Diana Ross
36. "I believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different." Dolly Parton
37. "Where flowers bloom, so does hope." Lady Bird Johnson
38. "Find something truly awesome today. We seldom look and often miss!" Me
39. "Sunshine is the best medicine." Unknown
40. "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood
41. "Despite the forecast live like it's spring." Lilly Pulitzer
42. "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today." Unknown
43. "Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult and dangerous and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it."
Emilie Autumn
44. "Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing." Lance Armstrong
45. "Where there is no imagination, there is no horror." Arthur Conan Doyle
46. "A boy's best friend is his mother." Norman Bates
47. "Things are only as scary as you allow them to be". Me
48. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
49. "It doe not matter how long you are spending on earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters." Amit Ray
50. "I don't want a perfect life. I want a happy life" Unknown
51. "The secret to happiness ... Be good to yourself, be true to yourself, and love who you are right now." Lisa Prosen
52. "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is wine. Oh... I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with cheese." Dave Berry
53. "To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ" Bernhard Langer
54. "Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith." W.H. Auden
55. God is not interested in your art, but your heart." Ifeanyi enoch, Onuoha
56. "Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen' but 'I shall rise.' Phillips Brooks
57. Easter Quotes... "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter People and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul 11
58. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx
59. So many books, so little time.” Frank Zappa
60. "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word hapy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. it is far better to take things as they come along with patience an equanimity. " Carl Jung
61. "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Douglas Adams
62. "Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away." Paul Terry
63. "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live." Bertrand Russel
64. "What it meant to be: a happy life of course, companionship, of course. A common objective I think." Denis Thatcher
65. "He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life." William Law
66. "There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way." Thich Nhat Hanh
67. "Be happy, and a reason will come along." Robert Brault
68. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." Albert Einstein
69. "Happiness is enjoying the little things in life every single day! You simply have to be watching." Me
70. "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather recognizing and appreciating what we do have! Frederick Keonig
71. "They bring a smile to my face and joy to my heart, they are always there with hugs and kisses when I need then, they love me no matter what - my daughters" Nishan Panwar
72" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?" Samuel Johnson
73. "I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it's an easy place to go!" David Walliams
74. "Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right." Franklin Roosevelt
75. "It's rough to go through your life with your contents looking as if they have settled during shipping". Milton Berle
76. "A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anywhere till you change it." Unknown
77. "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" Unknown
78"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try." Ernest Hemingway
79. "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
80. "Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the things that Could Go Wrong" Marianne Williamson
81. God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?? William A. Ward
82. "Do not let the behavior of friends destroy your inner peace." Me
83, "You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine." Henry B. Eyring
84. Be Happy so that when others see you, they can be happy too! Me
85, "Happiness is Handmade... Unknown
86. "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness Maria Mitchell
87."Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller
88. "You have to have fought in a war to love peace." Geraldine Ferraro
89, "Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush ever fear and to hide every pain." Will Smith
90. "I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work." Pearl S. Buck
91, "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned some from yesterday." John Wayne
92. "The sky has no limits... neither do I..." Usian Bolt
93. "I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person." Demi Lovato
94. "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." John Updike
*I wonder what that says about nightmares??
95. "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." Abraham Lincoln
96. "I have learned to love which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to."
Margaret Cho
97. "He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it." Erica Jong
98..."In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." Buddha
99... "Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul." Jada Pinkett Smith
100... "I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it." Jeanne Calment
101... "Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert
102... "It may be best to set aside the rest of May to apologize for what you're going to do this cinco de mayo." Unknown
103..."Let's celebrate Uno, Dos, Tres, and Cuatro de Mayo just like it's cinco de mayo" Unknown... but I like it!!!
104... "I'll hook up with you this Cinco de Mayo if you can refrain from calling me a hot tamale" Unknown
105..."Keep calm and get your Cinco De Mayon on!" Unknown
106... "Cinco de Mayo makes me long for a world in which all holidays are conveniently names after the dates when they fall." Unknown
107. "A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it." Alistair Cooke
108... "There were a lot of people who liked my father and liked me for reasons that were entirely unrelated to I actually was and I had to learn to set aside positive impressions that were not grounded in reality." Pierre Trudeau
109... "We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light." Earl Nightingale
110... "To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, ope your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and it make it count. Say yes to your life. Nancy Reagan
111... "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light" George Washington
112... "And always embrace things, people, earth, sky, stars, as I do, freely a with the appropriate sense of space." Frank O'Hara
113... "Keep your face always toward the sunshine- and shadows will fall behind you." Walt Whitman
114... "I I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." Tallulah Bankhead
114..."Champions keep playing until the get it right!" Billie Jean King
115... "Look for the unexpected every single day. You have no idea what you might find. " Me
116... "Sometimes the bump in the road takes you quicker to your dreams. Josua Aaron Guillory
117... "Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo." Zoe Saldano
118... "We all have dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discimpline and effort." Jesse Owens
119..."Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers
120..."Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon." Francis Bacon
121..."I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold." Eartha Kitt
122..."Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."
Jack Kerouac
123... "Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book."
Malala
124... "If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him." Seneca
125... "She refused to be bored chiefly because she was boring."
Zelda Fitzgerald
126... 1. "The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."
Peggy O'Mara
127... "My grandkids always beat me at Rock Band, and I say "You may beat me at Rock Band, but I made the orginial records so shut up"
Paul McCartney
128... "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
Lao TZu
129... "What would you do if you weren't afraid""
Sheryl Sandburg
130... Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage."
Francis of Assisi
131..."The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who thing differently."
Friedrich Nietzsche
132... "Failure is not the opposite of succes; it's part of success." Arianna Huffington
133... "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw
134... As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't"
Carrie Fisher
135...."My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
Dalai Lama
136... "It's not just the small-potatoes post- 9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off. It's the big-ticket stuff too."
Rachel Maddow
137..."First of all, anybody who last lasted 30 and went throug the 60's is really a survivor."
Patti Smith
138... Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
Plato
139... "Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next."
Diane Sawyer
140.. "If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors."
Frank Sinatra
141... The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hestitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
142... "Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."
Janis Joplin
143... "There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."
Nelson Mandela
144... "It hurts every day when you practise hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?"
Caitlin Jenner
145..."He who laughs most, learns best"
John Cleese
146... John Legend is a nickname that somebody started calling e a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing."
John Legend
147..."Happiness is found n doing, not merely possessing."
Napoleon Hill
148.... "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb
149... Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
Mike Ditka
150... "After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
Ann Richards
151... 1. "Be Believing, be happy, don't get discourages. Things will work out."
Gordon B. Hinckley
152... "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact."
William James
153... "As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."
Mary Lou Retton
155... "I think someone should explain to the child that it's okay to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we makes mistakes."
Kareem Abdul-jabbar
156... "There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
157... "Being powerful is so much more interesting that being beautiful"
Helen Mirren
158... "If we give our children sound self love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them."
Bell Hooks
159... "I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do."
Sidney Crosby
160... "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Katherine Hepburn
161... "Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I have ever directed!
Steven Spielberg
162..."When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it. Prince
163... If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. Marissa Mayer
164. "Happiness is when you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi
165. "People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fiht for a few underdogs anyway" Unknown
166. The secret to walking to the South Pole is to put one foot in front of the other and to do this enough times." Erling Kagge
167... "Forgiveness does not make the other person right, but it does make you free." Unknown
168... "The art of being hapy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." Henry Ward Beecher
169... "Being happy is about about what you have. It's about the thoughts you have."Karen Salmansohn
170... Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
Abraham Lincoln
171... Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself." Kubra Sait
172... "I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affiars whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel." Florence Nightingale
173... " I want to be a passenger in my own life." Diane Ackerman
174,,, "There is no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?" Eddie Izzard
175... "I would rather stack it up and put it in a safe then peek inside the safe and see I'm running out of space." Drake
176,,, "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
Crazy Horse
176,,, "There is no happiness if the things we believe in are different than the things we do."
Albert Camus
177,,,"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and the you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
178,,,"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
Tennessee Williams
179.. "For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
Mary Kay Ash
180. If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a gloreious scene at a lemonade stand."
Elizabeth Gilbert
181. "The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people donlt always dream your dream."
Linda Ronstadt
182. "I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
Ingrid Bergman
183."To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also beleave."
Anatole France
184...When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, 'After all this time?'And I will say, 'Always."
185."Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
Emily Bissell
186 "Talk about a dream, try to make it real."
Bruce Springsteen
187..."It is never to late to be what you might have been."
George Elliot
188,,, Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."
Virginia Woolf
189. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."
Amelia Barr
190... "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
Bob Marley
192... "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
193... "What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love... They are the guiding lights of a life.
Jimmy Carter
194...."There is no such thing as an overnight success"
Tory Burch
195... "It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food and good laughs. I'm happy, I'm satisfied. I'm content."
Maria Sharpova
196... "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
197... Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hiden by crabgrass.
Unknown
198... Happiness is not one big thing. It's all the little things put together."
Unknown
199... "Do what you can with what you have and where you are."
Unknown
200... "People will do whatever they want regardless of your feelings. Once you realize that, you'll be free."
Unknown
201... "Deal with your problems before they deal with your happiness.
Unknown
202... "Happiness begins with the decision to no longer feel sad."
Steven aitchison
203..."Be believing
Be Happy
don't get discouraged.
Things will work out."
Gorden B. Hincley
204... You will be exactly as happy as you decide to be!
Unknown
205... Happy mind... Happy life... the trick is to keep your mind happy! Think about something that you did that makes you smile!!
206... We all live with the objective of being happy ; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
207... "Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."
Norm Papernick
208... "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
209... "The richer you get, the more expensive happiness becomes
210... "The hardest thing to find in life is Happiness - money is only hard to find because it gets wasted trying to find happiness.
Unknown
211..."Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Unknown
212.... "Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like."
Unknown
213... "Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through."
Sam Cawthorn
214. Live simply
Dream Big
Be Grateful
Give love
Laugh Lots
Unknown
215... The secret to happiess ... Be good to yourself, be true to yourself and love who you are right now."
Lisa 1. "He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life."
William Law
216... "One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from wich it did not rise."
Clifford Odets
217... I just want to have a nice, happy life."
Orlando Bloom
218... "I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life."
Karen Salmansohn
219... "At the end of the, it's your life. If you turn out good, the world celebrates you and with you (not minding how you achieved it). If bad, they abandon you (even if they gave you the advice that led you to doom). Just be you and follow your heart."
Omoakhuana Anthonai
220..."Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. Trust. Hope. Love. Wish. Believe. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go."
Mandy Hall
221... "Happiness is when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else's approval."
Unknown
222... "There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy."
Unknown
223... "We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
Barbara De Angelis
224... "Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are."
Ariana Grande
225... Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way."
Gretchen Bleiler
226...1."A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."
Bernard de Fontenelle
227... Every now and then when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my sould with delight..."
Mattie Elliot
228,"Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."
William Wordsworth
229... "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
H. Jackson Brown
230 Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." Cynthia Nelms
231. "Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work."
Beatrix Potter
232. "What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?"
Beatrix Potter
233..."There is something about writing the first words of a story. You never quite no where they'll take you."
Beatrix Potter
234." Enjoy the little things in life... for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.
235. Once upon a time there were four little rabbits and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter
Beatrix Potter
236... "If you want to be happy, be...
Leo Tolstoy
237..."I am responsible for my own happiness.
Unknown
238.... "Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed."
Unknown
239..."Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
James Dean
240... "The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are."
Goldie Hawn
241,,, "Oh the mulberry tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green! But as time steals onwards, while none perceives, slowly she clothes herself with leaves."
Dinah Maria Murlock
242... 1. It's a good day to be happy!!
Unknown
243... Stop waiting for friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment in are in now." Unknown
244... Give yourself the same care and attention that you give to others and watch yourself bloom."
Unknown
245... "Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."
Frank Tyger
246. "If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."
Roy T. Bennett
247... "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
Rita Mae Brown
248... "Happiness is more than doing fun things. It's about doing meaningful things."
Maxime Lagace
249... "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
250... "Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued, is always just beyong your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
251... "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."
Denis Waitley
252... "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedome that comes from being able to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but to embrace it."
Kevyn Aucoin
253... "They say a person needs: someone to love, something to do, and something to hopefor."
Tom Bodett
255,,, "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
John Lennon
256,,, "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
257... "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Robert A. Heinlein
258... 1. "We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."
Bern Williams
259..., "The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
Doug Larson
260... "He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."
Socrates
261... "A harvest of peach grows from seeds of contentment."
Indian Proberb
262...." Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurius
263.... "At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."
Elizabeth Gilbert
264.... "Happiness consists in not having much, but in being content with little."
Unknown
265... "Contentment is an attitude that says, "I will be satisfied with what God has given me."
Unknown
266... "Cleansers and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!!"
Olivia Wilde
267.... "Content does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord."
Paul Henderson
268..."There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."
Swami Sivananda
270... "Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
271... "I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
Pablo Picasso
272... "if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it be begin with."
Noel Langley
273..., "We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. "
Immanuel Kant
274.., "he who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. "
Socrates
275.... Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
276... "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time... serenity, that nothing is."
Thomas Szasz
277... "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
278... There is more to life than increasing its speed." Mahatma Gandhi
279.., "We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh."
William James
280... "Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live."
Rachel Ann Nunes
281... "The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger... but recognize the opportunity."
John F Kennedy
282... "One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
Gustave Flaubert
283. Every man has a property in his own person. The nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke
284."Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
Mary Oliver
285... "Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Augustus Hare
286.... "The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant."
Helen Steiner Rice
287.... "When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self."
Jennifer Lopez
288... "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
Martha Washington
289... "Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating"
Marian Anders
290... "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courageto lose sight of the shore."
Andre Gide
291. "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
292. "It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a windown, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."
Colette
293. "Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness of people."
Roy T. Bennet
294. "Peace begins with a smile."
Mother Teresa
295. Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset."
Ileana D'Cruz
296. If people are talking behind your back, be happy that you are the one in front.
Unknown
297."A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones."
Proverbs 17:22
298. "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."
Baron Alexander von Humboldt
299. "People with many interests live, not only the longest, but the happiest."
George Mathew Allen
300. "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts."
Proverbs 4:23
301... 1. "People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
Rem Koolhaas
302. "The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order. "
Henri Nouwen
303. "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Rumi
304. "Existence does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstacy, rather which we have only to be still to experience."
John Updike
305. "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
Emily Dickinson
306..."If I had my life to live again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
Tallulah Bankhead
307."Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."
Pearl Bailey
308. "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
Carl Bard
I think that this has to be one of favorite quotes... one that people ignore!
309... "Everything is a miracle, not just the beautiful and lovely things."
Unknown
310. "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James
311. "You can only have bliss if you don't chase it."
Henepola Gunaratana
312."Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference."
Naval Ravikant
313. "Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps."
Sharon Draper
314. "There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to yourself."
Henry David Thoreau
315. Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
Mark Twain
316... 1. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive."
Anais Nin
317 "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
Charles Schulz
318... "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso
319."Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
320..."Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom."
Herman Hesse
321." "Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
James Russell Lowell
322. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Marcu Aurelius
323. "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
Tobias Wolff
324. "Wit is the only wall between us and the dark."
Mark Van Doren
325. It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts, which maybe entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion."
Norman Angel
326. What soap is the the body, laughter is to the soul.
Yiddish Proverb
327. "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Charlie Chaplin
328. "I would say laughter is the best medicine but it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antiobiotics and steroids.
Stephen Colbert
329. "A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride."
Bonny Clark
330. "Laughing with a friend is the best kind of laughing there is...Unknown
331.."I enjoyed my life when I kind of had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me."Joey Ramone
332... "My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments- I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret."
Tina Turner
333... "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Robert A Heinlein
334.."The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true."
Unknown
335... Would you rather be right or happy?
A Course in Miracles
336. Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening."
Lisa M. Hayes
337. Procaffeinating...(n) the tendency to not start anything until you've had a cup of coffee.
338. "She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed... Sarah Mayberry... to make you grin.
339. "Remember,no human condition is ever permanent. Then you not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
Socrates
340. A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed or excited all in one day. And for free."
Amy Neftzger
341. Never put the key to your happiness in someone elses pocket.
Unknown
342. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
343. "Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
Winnie the Pooh
344. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddah
345. One of the biggest challenges in trying to be happy right now isn't that we don't know how to be happy. It's mostly that we just don't do it. We don't make the time for happiness for peace, and fo overall joy in our life.
Kumar Anupam
346. "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King.
347. "Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
348. "The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your rituals. I have a morning ritual, an afternoon ritual and a Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits."
Lewis Howes
349. "We see the brightness of a new page where anything can happen." Rainer Maria Rilke
350. "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
Jonathon Winters
351... 1. "And so she decided to start living the life she imagined."
Unknown
352. "Every great thinker keeps a journal you know"
Trenton Lee Stewart
353. "Be daring. Be Different. Be Impractical. Be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the 'Play if Safers', the creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary."
Cecil Bacon
354. "Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day."
Unknown
355... "Journals who keep journals have life twice.
Jessamyn West
356..."Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
357..."Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."
Henry Ward Beecher.
358..."Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life."
Ralph W. Sockman
359."Life I fancy would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
George R. Gissing
360... "At the end of the day, remember all the positive things that happened.
Smile and have sweet dreams.
Unknown
361... Prayer brings some amazing things that you never expected."
Unknown
362. "Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."
Kurt Cobain
363."Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
Dr. Robert H Schuller
364. "The more we do, the more we can do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."
William Hazlitt
365...1. "Obstacles are the raw materials of great accomplishments."
Tommy Newberry
2. Prayer brings some amazing things that you never expected."
Unknown
3. "Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."
Kurt Cobain
4."Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
Dr. Robert H Schuller
5. "The more we do, the more we can do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."
William Hazlitt