Quotes about happiness and wellbeing

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Happiness and wellbeing'.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy. (Alan Cohen)
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. (Alan Cohen)
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. (Raymond Hull)
There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. (Audrey Hepburn)
Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today. (Aesop) [The Grasshopper and the Ants - Aesop's Fables]
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning; you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out - and can't wait to come back home, because the soup is hot. (George Burns)
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. (Frank Tyger)
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. (Walter Anderson)
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. (Phyllis Diller)
Healing comes from taking responsibility. To realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. (Peter Shepherd)
Gratitude is the heart's memory (French Proverb)
Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. (Marilyn Monroe)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Theodore Seuss Giesel)
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it. (Dalai Lama)
You never know when you are making a memory. (Rickie Lee Jones)
Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. (Unknown) Click here for illustrated quote
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. (Andrew Jackson)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion. (Dalai Lama)
Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. (Chinese Proverb)
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller)
Let go of anger - it is an acid that burns away the delicate layers of your happiness. (Unknown)
If I won't be myself, who will? (Alfred Hitchcock)
Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. The World Cup. But we're all eligible for life's smaller prizes... A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. (Unknown)
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. (James M. Barrie)
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. (Helen Keller)
Happiness and contentment in life reside less in the transient mansions, spa's and international playgrounds of the rich, but more in the permanent residence of the heart and mind. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Everything is a gift of the universe - even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. (Ken Keyes Jr.)
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. (Winston Churchill) [former prime minister]
Once you do something you love, you never have to work again. (Willie Hill)
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. (Mark Twain)
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy! (Barry Neil Kaufman)
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. (Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey)
A smile increases your face value. (Unknown)
Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. (Dale Carnegie)
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Click here for illustrated quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton)
Humor is contagious. Laughter is infectious. Both are good for your health. (Unknown)
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough (Oprah Winfrey)
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. (Joseph Addison)
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for. (Zig Ziglar)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. (Saint Francis de Sales)
Take time to work - it is the price of success Take time to think - it is the source of power Take time to play - it is the secret of perpetual youth Take time to read - it is the fountain of wisdom Take time to be friendly - it is the road to happiness Take time to love and be loved - it is the nourishment of the soul Take time to share - it is too short a life to be selfish Take time to laugh - it is the music of the heart Take time to dream - it is hitching your wagon to a star. (Unknown)
Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself. (Unknown)
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. (Greg Anderson)
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius)
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. (Unknown)
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)
A smile is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge)
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. (Buddha)
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. (Alain De Botton)
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. (David Allen)
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a month, get married. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help others. (Chinese Proverb)
You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. (Ruth Smeltzer)
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. (Ralph Waldo Emerson )
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. (Malcolm Forbes)
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. (Hugh Prather)
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have. (Unknown)
Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama. (Ram Dass)
Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies. (Cora Harvey Armstrong)
A greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. (Martha Washington)
Happiness isn't getting what you want, but experiencing who you are. (Unknown)
If you feel the need to apologise, apologise today. (Unknown)
The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality. (Brian Tracy)
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. (Carlos Castaneda)
I told you I was ill. (Spike Milligan)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)
The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. (Martha Washington)
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault)
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. (Suzanne Sommers)
It is better to get laugh wrinkles than to get worry warts. (Unknown)
In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up. (R.H. Grenville)
Don't stay where you are tolerated. Go where you are celebrated. (Unknown) Click here for illustrated quote
As you begin to live in the present moment, you will experience a subtle but profound change. Your worrying about the future will cease. (Unknown)
It's impossible to have too much fun. (Unknown)
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. (Groucho Marx)
In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up. (Unknown)
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer)
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today. (Aesop)
Always try to make other people happy, even if you have to leave them alone to do it. (Spike Milligan)
It is easier to fight for one's principals than to live up to them. (Alfred Adler )
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. (William Allen White)
Don't cry over spilt milk - it only makes it salty for the cat. (Unknown)
No one is in charge of your happiness except you. (Unknown)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Going against the grain may result in a few splinters, and it may rub a few people the wrong way, but going with it is like forcing your TRUE self to walk the plank. (David Roppo)
If you feel the need to forgive, forgive today. (Unknown)
If you are doing your best you will not have time to worry about failure. (Robert S. Hillyer)
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. (Ayn Rand)
If you feel the need to risk, risk today. (Unknown)
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. (Aesop) [Juno and the Peacock]
Happiness in life is not measured by the things we achieve, the places we go, or the route that we take to get there. Happiness in life is measured by the people that we share all of our experiences with. (Chris Needham)
Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. (Aesop) [The Bee and Jupiter - Aesop's Fables]
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. (Mark Rutherford)
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A clear conscious is the best defense. (Chinese Proverb)
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Voltaire)
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. (Lao Tzu) [philosopher]
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. (Herman Cain)
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. (Unknown)
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. (William Adams)
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. (Denis Waitley)
Do not wish to be anything but what you are and to be that perfectly. (Unknown)
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. (Soren Kierkegaard)
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. (Maya Angelou)
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. (Yiddish Proverb)
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. (Andrew Carnegie)
Don't cry over spilt milk. (Aesop) [The Milkmaid and Her Pail - Aesop's Fables]
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot)
Bad habits are like comfortable beds, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. (Unknown)
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. (Hannah More)
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. (Karen S. Magee)
If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet. (Unknown)
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. (James Leo Herlihy)
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. (Dr. Seuss)
When you relinquish the desire to control your future you obtain happiness. (Nicole Kidman)
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. (Fernandez de Andrada)
Meditation is the joy to be yourself. Meditation is the courage to be yourself. Meditation will make you unique and will make you rejoice in being different from the others. Meditation is the way to be yourself. (Tishan)
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. (Thomas Szasz)
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. (Aristotle)
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. (Alan Cohen)
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. (John Barrymore)
The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive. (Rachel England)
If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the problem. (Stephen Covey)
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing. (Unknown)
Happiness lies ahead for those who cry; those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. (Unknown)
Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. (J. Petit Senn)
Align your personality and soul purpose and experience more synchronicity, fulfillment and happiness. It is never too late to become the person you were meant to be. (Unknown)
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. (Marcus Aurelius)
I prefer to be a pessimist; it makes it easier to deal with my inevitable failure. (Film: The McMullen Brothers)
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)
If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. (Unknown)
As doctors we are at out best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. (Albert Schweitzer)
The more you recognise the immense good within you, the more you magetize the immense good around you. (Unknown)
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Dr. Seuss)
Believe in the best... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best. (Henry Ford)
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. (Dr. Melba Colgrove)
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown)

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