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Happiness quotes and captions for Instagram and WhatsApp Status
Happiness short quotes
- ““They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”” – Tom Bodett,
- ““Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”” – Audrey Hepburn,
- ““Happiness is a warm puppy.”” – Charles M. Schulz,
- ““You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”” – Jonathan Safran Foer,
- ““Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”” – Gabriel García Márquez,
- ““Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”” – George Burns,
- ““Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”” – Marcel Proust,
- ““If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”” – Sylvia Plath,
- ““The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”” – Chuck Palahniuk,
- ““Hope\nSmiles from the threshold of the year to come,\nWhispering ‘it will be happier’…”” – Alfred Lord Tennyson,
- ““Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”” – Bertrand Russell,
- ““Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”” – Mark Twain,
- ““You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.” – Lauren Oliver,
- ““It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”” – Lucy Maud Montgomery,
- ““The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”” – Marcus Aurelius,
- ““Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”” – W.P. Kinsella,
- ““Happiness [is] only real when shared”” – Jon Krakauer,
- ““Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.”” – Paul Simon,
- ““The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”” – Bette Midler,
- ““I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”” – Jane Austen,
- ““Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”” – Ayn Rand,
- ““Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”” – Steve Maraboli,
- ““Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”” – Fyodor Dostoevsky,
- ““Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”” – Orhan Pamuk,
- ““I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”” – Alexandre Dumas,
- ““Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”” – Mark Twain,
- ““All happiness depends on courage and work.”” – Honoré de Balzac,
- “I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.”” – David Henry Hwang,
- ““Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”” – Charlotte Bronte,
- ““One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”” – Rita Mae Brown,
- ““The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““Happiness depends upon ourselves.”” – Aristotle,
- ““Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”” – Guillaume Apollinaire,
- ““Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”” – Robert Frost,
- ““Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”” – Aristotle,
- ““The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”” – Jennifer Niven,
- ““Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.”” – Roy T. Bennett,
- ““We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”” – Charles Bukowski,
- ““There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”” – G.K. Chesterton,
- ““Whoever is happy will make others happy.”” – Anne Frank,
- ““Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”” – Pat Conroy,
- ““Laughter is poison to fear.”” – George R.R. Martin,
- ““Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”” – Tony DeLiso,
- ““Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”” – Daphne du Maurier,
- ““The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”” – Carrie Jones,
- ““Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”” – Epictetus,
- ““It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”” – Henrik Ibsen,
- ““Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”” – Marcus Aurelius,
- ““Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”” – William James,
- ““Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”” – Eleanor Roosevelt,
- ““My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”” – Fyodor Dostoevsky,
- ““The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”” – Louisa May Alcott,
- ““And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”” – J.D. Salinger,
- ““People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat–that’s the only moral they know.”” – Dany Laferrière,
- ““A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”” – John Keats,
- ““Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”” – susan polis schutz,
- ““The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”” – C.S. Lewis,
- ““Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”” – Katherine Mansfield,
- ““Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness quotes and captions for Instagram and WhatsApp Status
- Three things needed: love, do, hope.
- Your own happiness, your responsibility.
- Enjoy life, be happy always.
- Happiness is a warm puppy indeed.
- Protect happiness from sadness.
- Life’s short, be happy now.
- Happiness? No medicine can cure.
- Family happiness in another city.
- Grateful for people who make us happy.
- Live fully in the present for happiness.
- Happiness is the onrush of scenery.
- Risk being open for true happiness.
- Hope whispers: it will be happier.
- Caution in love can kill happiness.
- Sanity and happiness? Impossible combo.
- Sometimes being unhappy is okay.
- Enjoy things if you decide to.
- Thoughts determine your life’s happiness.
- Success is wanting what you get.
- Happiness is real when shared.
- Make someone smile everyday.
- Nothing to do but smile today.
- Success can have unhappy people.
- Content being happier than deserved.
- Fight for your own happiness.
- Tears water future happiness seeds.
- Count happiness, not just troubles.
- Holding you is holding the world.
- Happy blinds more than pride.
- Choose to be happy, live your life.
- Cheer others, cheer yourself up.
- Courage and work bring happiness.
- I’m happy, looks like crazy.
- Unhared happiness has no taste.
- Bad memory is key to happiness.
- Feed mind with positive thoughts.
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Mindset and attitude bring happiness.
- Pause and just be happy now.
- Happiness makes up in height.
- Happiness is life’s meaning.
- Small things often count most.
- Smile more, be and make happy.
- Just a little less pain for happiness.
- Desire less to get enough.
- Happy people make others happy.
- Happiness is a flawless accident.
- Laughter is poison to fear always.
- Keep wishes close to heart.
- Happiness is a state of mind.
- Freedom and courage bring happiness.
- Few wants bring wealth, happiness.
- Craving happiness in this life.
- Happiness is within your thinking.
- Action brings happiness always.
- Happiness is life well lived.
- Bliss for a lifetime? Enough.
- Beauty in things makes life lovely.
- Between grief and high delight.
- Sweat for happiness, that’s moral.
- Beauty is a joy forever.
- Dance in sun, wear wild flowers.
- Pain now, happiness before deal.
- Happiness with happy people.
- Happiness is frequent pleasure.
- “Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy.” – Roy T. Bennett #SelfHappiness #LiveYourLife
- “Your self-respect so important, look in hearts for your happiness.” – Hunter S. Thompson #RespectYourself #FindJoy
- “To be happy, not too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus #HappyLife #FocusOnYou
- “Necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, courage, self denial, love of work, clear conscience.” – George Sand #HappyIngredients #SimplePleasures
- “I have the power to make me happy.” – Groucho Marx #ChooseHappiness #MyDay
- “Positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” – Amit Ray #PositiveVibes #LifeMatters
- “Your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.” – Steve Maraboli #BeautifulYou #LimitlessHappiness
- “Living against my own truth.” – Charlie Chaplin #BeAuthentic #FindYourTruth
- “Know your own happiness.” – Jane Austen #OwnYourJoy #BeHappy
- “Your treasure is within you already.” – Elizabeth Gilbert #InnerPeace #YouAreEnough
- “Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply… forget self, think of others.” – Norman Vincent Peale #HappyHeart #SimpleLiving
- “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” – Stephen Richards #NeverGiveUp #KeepGoing
- “I have conquered myself. I am very happy.” – Sri Chinmoy #SelfConquest #InnerHappiness
- “Live free of conditions governing your own happiness.” – Steve Maraboli #FreeYourself #ChooseJoy
- “Find grace in himself, splendid happiness.” – Martha Medeiros #InnerGrace #SplendidHappiness
- “More selfless to act happy.” – Gretchen Rubin #ActHappy #BeSelfless
- “Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself – And you will be happy.” – Stephen Fry #StopSelfPity #BeHappyNow
- “Your own happiness to think about.” – Melissa de la Cruz #ThinkOfYourself #YourHappiness
- “Happiness depends on inner conditions.” – Dale Carnegie #InnerPeace #HappyInside
- “Rather lose you if it means you’ll be happy.” – Katja Millay #YourHappinessFirst #LetGo
- “Make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda #ChooseHappy #SameEffort
- “Just be happy now!” – Dan Millman #BeHappy #NowIsTheTime
- “Within me, something stronger – something better… makes me happy.” – Albert Camus #InnerStrength #FindYourHappy
- “Believe in yourself! You cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale #BelieveInYourself #BeSuccessful
- “The demand for their real happiness.” – Karl Marx #RealHappiness #DemandJoy
- “Depend on no one but YOU for your happiness.” – Mandy Hale #DependOnYourself #YourHappinessMatters
Self-happiness quotes
- “Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “We are all alone, born alone, die alone… This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” – Hunter S. Thompson
- “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
- “One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.” – George Sand
- “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.” – Groucho Marx
- “It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” – Amit Ray
- “You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.” – Steve Maraboli
- “As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Know your own happiness.” – Jane Austen
- “Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” – Stephen Richards
- “I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world.” – Sri Chinmoy
- “Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? Today, many will open their eyes to the beauty that surrounds them. Why not you? Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you?” – Steve Maraboli
- “He who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly. Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.” – Martha Medeiros
- “The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy.” – Gretchen Rubin
- “Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself – And you will be happy.” – Stephen Fry
- “You have your own happiness to think about.” – Melissa de la Cruz
- “Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Maybe one day you’ll come back… I’d rather lose you if it means you’ll be happy.” – Katja Millay
- “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
- “Just be happy now!” – Dan Millman
- “Within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. And that makes me happy.” – Albert Camus
- “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.” – Karl Marx
- “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…” – Mandy Hale
True happiness quotes
- “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own…” – Nicholas Sparks
- “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
- “I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” – Hunter S. Thompson
- “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future…” – Seneca
- “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself… To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” – Lana Del Rey
- “This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
- “The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things.” – Peter S. Beagle
- “…it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.” – Ernest Cline
- “The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.” – Karl Marx
- “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives… something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.” – Dalai Lama XIV
- “Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
- “The secret to happiness…be satisfied and be grateful.” – Mitch Albom
- “In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom…” – Anthon St. Maarten
- “…I’d made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else… I thought: I want to go to China. It’s full of treasures and strangeness and mysteries and joy.” – Philip Pullman
- “To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being…” – Dan Simmons
Finding happiness quotes
- “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it…” – Haruki Murakami
- “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler
- “…hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems.” – Paulo Coelho
- “…people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope…find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.” – Fred Rogers
- “…it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.” – Gabriel García Márquez
- “Jamie, I understood then, had already given me the answer I’d been searching for, the answer my heart needed to find.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it…” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “…finding-yourself…” – Mandy Hale
- “…man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
- “…books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love.” – Cornelia Funke
- “…never be able to find a match…” – Sarah Kane
- “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” – Steve Maraboli
- “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “…blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth…” – Jim Butcher
- “Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else.” – Fulton J. Sheen
- “I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.” – John Barrowman
- “If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.” – Paulo Coelho
- “…you may find encouragement and comfort.” – E.B. White
- “…pray that I’d find my people…” – Lana Del Rey
- “…How could I find this, find love–now…” – Stephenie Meyer
- “Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
- “…Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.” – Martha Medeiros
- “Look, I’m going to find a way to be happy…” – Randy Pausch
- “…happiness is easier to get used to than despair.” – Lemony Snicket
- “…a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.” – Laini Taylor
- “…sometimes we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs.” – Greg Behrendt
- “…He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you…” – Pope John Paul II
Love and happiness quotes
- “Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.” – Katherine Mansfield
- “Did you know I always thought you were braver than me?…Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one…I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too…” – Jodi Lynn Anderson
- “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I don’t want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.” – Matthew Quick
- “It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God…Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.” – Fulton J. Sheen
- “I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen…if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire…When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you…you had the absolute audacity to love me back…Sometimes, even now, I still can’t.” – Casey McQuiston
- “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.” – Oscar Wilde
- “This life is yours…Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to make your life happy.” – Susan Polis Schutz
- “He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.” – W. Somerset Maugham
- “I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.” – Sri Chinmoy
- “She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.” – Maggie Stiefvater
- “Cultivate an attitude of happiness…rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love…” – Gordon B. Hinckley
- “You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.” – Lauren Kate
- “Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” – Victor Hugo
- “Alec isn’t happy,” said Magnus…“There are some people…cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.” – Cassandra Clare
- “If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all…you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile…you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love…how can you have reached so far inside my heart?” – Lisa Kleypas
- “So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure…every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it…after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other…so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.” – Hermann Hesse
- “But I have to confess, I’m glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together.” “I’m not glad,” says Peeta… “If it weren’t for the baby.” – Suzanne Collins
- “Self pity will destroy relationships…Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself – And you will be happy.” – Stephen Fry
- “When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot…who kisses you when you screw up…you marry him all over again.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Look, I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.” – Randy Pausch
- “You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.” – Melissa de la Cruz
- “The more you love and trust Him…His love and care never tire or change…may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.” – Charles Bukowski
- “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love…dreamed of a world…a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.” – Laini Taylor
- “Things that matter are not easy…Happiness is not…Flirting is easy. Love is not.” – David Levithan
- “Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up…someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending…maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own…Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts…you never gave up hope.” – Greg Behrendt
- “Let me wake up next to you…and I’ll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.” – Charlotte Eriksson
- “I want to wake up with you every morning and fall asleep beside you each night…I’ll make you happy. Every day, I’ll make you happy.” – Becca Fitzpatrick
- “love means to see the one you love happy” – Nicholas Sparks
Happiness quotes for her
- “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” – Jess C. Scott
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.” – Brenton Stewart
- “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” – Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
- “I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” – Santosh Kalwar
- “I’m okay once I realize you’re here.” – Unknown
- “Madly in love after so many years… they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.” – Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
Peace and happiness quotes
- “But I need solitude–which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness…” – Charles Dickens
- “In life hard times will befall you that will create doubt in yourself…achieve happiness with grace in letting go.” – Forrest Curran
- “Synchronize each breath with the present moment and become intertwined with happiness. Breathing in…breathing out, we let go of the depression and anxiety that hold us back.” – Forrest Curran
- “May there someday be sunshine May there someday be happiness May there someday be love May there someday be peace….” – Unknown
- “I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment…” – Dalai Lama XIV
- “Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things. They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “…He was searching for peace, contentment, trying to fill that fucking hole he felt inside, and he believed he could fill it.” – James Frey
- “We’re all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle…helped me with my life: “I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself.”” – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- “To travel is to ask for a complex mix of the new and the old, hellos and goodbyes, and sadness and happiness.” – Forrest Curran
- “Your life is your artwork and you are to paint life as a beautiful struggle…Be grateful for the green that makes up the beautiful canvas, for nature has given you everything that you need to be happy.” – Forrest Curran
- “Without the fear of occasional gaffes, the willingness to be perfectly imperfect…stay the happy child of mine.” – Forrest Curran
- “…is it the environment or rather the openness in mindset, that makes up the elusive essence of happiness that we experience when we travel?” – Forrest Curran
- “Give me peace and happiness, a loving relationship, and a perfect home.” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “…what you call peace is a certain kind of chemistry within you. Similarly, what you call joy…The spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry, where you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous.” – Sadhguru
- “Sex is a very personal experience and the morals you follow under this act are a personal notion that you create yourself for the sake of your personal happiness.” – Forrest Curran
- “Allowing both negative and positive thoughts to arise in life and acknowledging them for what they are…we grant our emotions free passage within without allowing external influences to impede our personal happiness.” – Forrest Curran
- “Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The sun shone warm, the grass…All were happy — plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people…a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Some people say, “Once you learn to be happy, you won’t tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.” My Christ says…Until then, you will never know who I really am. You will always be just a fan or a Sunday only warrior. You will continue to represent who you are to the world, but not me. I am the God that rescues.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.” – Upamanyu Chatterjee
- “You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.” – Joseph P. Kauffman
- “They drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them.” – J.K. Rowling
- “…instead of finding a skyline to living up to peace of mind.” – Erik Pevernagie
- ““It makes me happy. It’s peaceful, spending hours working on it. It doesn’t really matter to me if anyone else sees it.”” – Emily St. John Mandel
- “Know definitely and absolutely that whatever contributes to your peace, happiness, and fulfillment must of necessity bless all men who walk the earth.” – Joseph Murphy
- “Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it…Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “No one will ever understand the potency of my memories…that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality…Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.” – Daisaku Ikeda
- “Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.” – Sri Chinmoy
- “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.” – Criss Jami
- “If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.” – Joss Whedon
- “The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.” – William Faulkner
- “Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” – Germany Kent
- “[H]ere was the secret of happiness…portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.” – Thomas De Quincey
Birthday happiness quotes
- “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries.” – Rosemarie Urquico
- “Seventeen, eh!” said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. “Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?” “Vaguely,” said Harry, grinning up at him. “Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?” “I forge’ the details,” Hagrid chortled.” – J.K. Rowling
- “what’s your name?” what?” i asked, squinting at the light. your name.” I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name.” I want you to tell me.” Rose. Rose Hathaway.” Do you know your birthday?” Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?” Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. “I think she’s fine,” – Richelle Mead
- “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” – William Shakespeare
- “Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.” – Mitch Albom
- “Life, a good life, a great life is about “Why not?” May we never forget it.” – Danielle Steel
- “Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly.” – Janet Evanovich
- “The world doesn’t hate you as much as you think it does.” – Kōji Suzuki
- “I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends.” – Kiera Cass
- “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – Robert Frost
- “It’s okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.” – Jodi Picoult
- Tucker: “But she gave me the perfect gift.” Clara: “What?” Tucker: “You.” – Cynthia Hand
- “Most people in Atlanta don’t have an accent… “My birthday is in February.” Cough choke wheeze. “Please don’t forget.” – Stephanie Perkins
- “I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” – Rick Riordan
- “Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day… the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile—reverberates across great distances and spans of time…” – Dean Koontz
- “…it’s a half-remembered childhood birthday party…” – Stephen Fry
- “I miss you, Eleanor… the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake” – Rainbow Rowell
- “I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, ‘What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.” – Maggie Stiefvater
- “Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings…” – Susan B. Anthony
- “I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ” – Ovid
- “So she told me a story… It was his gift, she said, for my birthday.” – Tahereh Mafi
- Abby touched her palm to my cheek… “In another life, I could love you.” “I might love you in this one.” – Jamie McGuire
- “He taught me there’s a place on a man’s back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,’ Sebastian had said. ‘I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,’ Jace thought. ‘Didn’t we?” – Cassandra Clare
- “If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.” – Kami Garcia
- “Birthday candles.” – Francesca Lia Block
- “On her fifteenth birthday you taught her how to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense.” – Warsan Shire
- “My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk.” – Jarod Kintz
- “Mother, Father, my chwaer fach, It’s my seventeenth birthday today.” – Cassandra Clare
- “I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.” – Neil Gaiman
- “People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It’s a fact. You can look it up on Wikipedia.” – Katja Millay
- “…all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.” – Brandon Sanderson
- “Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?” – Rick Riordan
- “I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you’re evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won’t cry.” – Morrissey
- “It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! “Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!” – Rick Riordan
- “We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.” – Andrea Gibson
Choose happiness quotes
- “Happiness is something that you have to choose of your own volition…” – Yoru Sumino
- “But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past… We always have that choice…” – Edith Eger
- “How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?” – Theodore Dalrymple
- “Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “I choose to be happy.” – Rihanna
- “I choose to be happy. Because I can be. Because I deserve to be.” – Kevin van Whye
- “But you have to choose happiness.” – Dean Koontz
- “…if you want to heal your wounds, Let sadness take its course… and when the time is right you shall feel happy again, most importantly in control and satisfied.” – Sneha Agarwal
- “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness…” – Bertrand Russell
- “Choose a companion of your own faith. You are much more likely to be happy.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
- “…We think that if we choose to do only good, then we are only good. We can make people happy.” – Marissa Meyer
- “…togetherness is more than just a fairy-tale…it’s a choice. A choice to love and cherish…A choice, dear friends, to give someone your entire heart. But in the end, love is what life is about.” – Pepper Winters
- “…we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.” – Matt Haig
- “What was worse, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?” – Amy Tan
- “…he will be well advised from the point of view of his own happiness if he chooses it in preference to work much more highly paid but not seeming to him worth doing on its own account.” – Bertrand Russell
- “Circumstances and situations do color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.” – Robert Holden
- “You know, my love, you are not responsible for my happiness…I chose you.” – Christine Feehan
- “Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain…” – Kevyn Aucoin
- “You can convince yourself to be happy or unhappy. It just depends on how you choose to see things.” – Genki Kawamura
- “The idea that you could rethink the thing you’d always thought you wanted and change your plan – it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful.” – Morgan Matson
- “There’s a big difference between being happy and being selfish. Choose to be happy.” – Jay McLean
- “[Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception…there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky
- “…there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky
- “You can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience…Ultimately, the real question is whether you want to be happy.” – Chris Hadfield
- “More and more, i choose to live in love, gratitude and forgiveness.” – Jaeda DeWalt
- “They choose to be happy even though the obviously easier choice would be to be frightened or sad…” – Fisher Amelie
- “Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen…” – Julio Cortázar
- “Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” – Voltaire
- “I would let her…choose her path…but I think children must lead big lives…if it is in them to do so.” – Eva Ibbotson
- “Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.” – Leah Stewart
- “I choose to believe that my father is still alive…I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy.” – Noorilhuda
- “In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying “yes” or “no”…When we say “yes”, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration.” – Swami Dhyan Giten
- “…a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.” – Milton Friedman
- “…to choose it and be happy here. When people are not happy, they fight against L.A…” – Eve Babitz
- “When we love, we choose to let part of our heart—part of our soul—live inside of another person. Their happiness is our happiness.” – Jewel E. Ann
- “It’s about choosing happiness over suffering.” – Laura Munson