With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. Author Unknown
Life should not be spent living in the past or the future.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. ~Mary Jean Iron
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Being present: When your mind is where your feet are.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides
Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith
Nothing speaks louder than the truth.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln
Every man dies but not every man has a chance to live~ Braveheart
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko
Don't let the past steal your present. ~Terri Guillemets
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. ~Robert Nathan, So Love Returns
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb
The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ~Euripides, Alexander
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. ~L. Thomas Holdcroft
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville,White Jacket
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~Brendan Francis
I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast. ~Jeb Dickerson
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days? ~Robert M. Young
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown
Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson
Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long....
~Billy Corgan, "Today," Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins), 1993
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne
Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. ~Marie Louise De La Ramee
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. ~Margaret Bonnano
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Psalm of Life
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts
It's not what if, it's what now. ~Author Unknown
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. ~Mary Jean Iron
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Author Unknown
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. ~T.A. Sachs
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault
In today already walks tomorrow. ~Friedrich von Schiller
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia
The future is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~The Music Man
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde,Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946
Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank,The Diary of a Young Girl
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Frankenstein, 1818
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown
What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault
Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.
~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909
Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery
Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore
I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~Author Unknown
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill
[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com
Your heart is a sun -
Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...
~Terri Guillemets
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle
Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey
Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer
The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you. ~Terri Guillemets
No vision and you perish;
No ideal, and you're lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.
~Harriet Du Autermont
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
~Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done
Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard
For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy
Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei
Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.
The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author Unknown
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~Alex Karras
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein
There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." ~Frederick L. Collins
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ~Francesca Lia Block
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
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
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
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 Browne
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~Robert Brault
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer,The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill,Autobiography, 1873
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Braul
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock,Mr. Moneypenny
The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
~Colley Cibber
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. ~Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche,Thus Spake Zarathustra
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
~Emily Dickinson
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
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. ~Maxim Gorky
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe
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
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson
It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~Confucius
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller
Life should not be spent living in the past or the future.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. ~Mary Jean Iron
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Being present: When your mind is where your feet are.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides
Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith
Nothing speaks louder than the truth.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln
Every man dies but not every man has a chance to live~ Braveheart
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering
And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand,Reasons for Moving
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~Eric Hoffer
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ~John Sladek
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery
You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~Kehlog Albran
I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. ~Author Unknown
The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonOur faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering
And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand,Reasons for Moving
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~Eric Hoffer
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ~John Sladek
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery
You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~Kehlog Albran
I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. ~Author Unknown
The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko
Don't let the past steal your present. ~Terri Guillemets
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. ~Robert Nathan, So Love Returns
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb
The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ~Euripides, Alexander
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. ~L. Thomas Holdcroft
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. ~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville,White Jacket
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~Brendan Francis
I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast. ~Jeb Dickerson
People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days? ~Robert M. Young
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown
Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson
Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long....
~Billy Corgan, "Today," Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins), 1993
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne
Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now. ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. ~Marie Louise De La Ramee
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. ~Margaret Bonnano
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Psalm of Life
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts
It's not what if, it's what now. ~Author Unknown
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. ~Mary Jean Iron
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Author Unknown
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. ~T.A. Sachs
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~Robert Brault
In today already walks tomorrow. ~Friedrich von Schiller
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia
The future is no place to place your better days. ~Dave Matthews
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. ~Emerson, Journals, 1827
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~The Music Man
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ~Isak Dinesen
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~Euripides
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde,Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946
| To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb |
Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank,The Diary of a Young Girl
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Frankenstein, 1818
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown
What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault
Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.
~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909
Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery
Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore
I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~Author Unknown
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill
[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com
Your heart is a sun -
Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...
~Terri Guillemets
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle
Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey
Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer
The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you. ~Terri Guillemets
No vision and you perish;
No ideal, and you're lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.
~Harriet Du Autermont
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
~Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done
Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard
For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy
Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei
Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.
The sun won't shine until you put the umbrella away. Be free. ~Author Unknown
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~Alex Karras
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein
There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." ~Frederick L. Collins
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ~Francesca Lia Block
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
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
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
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 Browne
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~Robert Brault
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer,The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill,Autobiography, 1873
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Braul
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock,Mr. Moneypenny
The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
~Colley Cibber
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. ~Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche,Thus Spake Zarathustra
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
~Emily Dickinson
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
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. ~Maxim Gorky
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe
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
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson
It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~Confucius
