Happy Quotes - Page 18

• An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.

  Sue Thoele

  Healthy, Essentials, Life Is

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.132, Conari Press

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• My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Rodney Dangerfield" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2004.

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• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

  John Assaraf

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sorry

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 05, 2014

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• A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Obsession, Obsessed

  "Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge". Book by V. A. Howard, 1974.

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• Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Moving, Blood, Unhappy

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• We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.52, Penguin

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• Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

  Timothy Keller

  Neighbor, Products, Related

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.127, Penguin

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• The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Keys, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2013

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• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Peaceful

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• By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Responsibility, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 10, 2015

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• There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Men, Doors

  "Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance". Book by Gary Rubin, p. 173, 2013.

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• My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Why Not, Rich

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 29, 2012

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• It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Sadness, Reality, People

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• The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

  Ann Landers

  Being Happy, Funny Inspirational, Funny Valentines Day

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happiness, Kissing, Enjoy Life

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• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Future, Greatness

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
  peace of mind and inner happiness

  Edward Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

  Jonathan Edwards

  God, New Year, Two

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• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Happiness, Cheer, Inspirational Life

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, God, Philosophical

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• Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

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• What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Choices, Joy, Events

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