quotes for happiness

} “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 
― Dr. Seuss

}“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

}“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” 

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

}“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” 

― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

}“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

}“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” 

― Chuck Palahniuk

}“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” 

― Dalai Lama XIV

}“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 in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” 

― Ernest Hemingway

}“Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

}“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” 

― John Lennon

}“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” 

― George Burns

}“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.” 

― Audrey Hepburn

}“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” 

― Jonathan Safran Foer

}“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” 

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

}“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.” 

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

}“I've got nothing to do today but smile.” 

― Simon and Garfunkel

}“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” 

― W.P. Kinsella