Happiness Now Quotes:

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

topic: Kindness, May, Today, Kind Words, Words You Say

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- Guillaume Apollinaire

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Smart, Sometimes All You Need, Inner Peace And Happiness

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

- Omar Khayyam

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Happy, Moments Of Happiness, Live Your Life Happy

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

- Gerard Way

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspiration And Life, Inspiring Students

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Positive, Appreciation, Lonely, Kind Words, Words You Say

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Positive, Happiness, Attitude, Money Isn't Everything, Success Happiness

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Interesting Life, Make Up Your Mind

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Joy Happiness, Secret To Happiness

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

- John Barrymore

topic: Love, Motivational, Positive, Inner Peace And Happiness, Just Be Happy

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

- Ashley Montagu

source: Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

topic: Happiness, Happy, Surprise, Always Happy, Sorrow And Happiness

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

- C. S. Lewis

source: "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

topic: Hurt, Pain, Boys, Hurt So Much, Happiness Now

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Others Happiness, Happy Place

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Pain, Grief, Losing Everything, Hurt So Much, Love Pain

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

- Thomas Szasz

topic: Funny, Happiness, Wisdom, Inner Happiness, Cute Funny Valentines Day

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

- Douglas William Jerrold

source: Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

topic: Happiness, Happy, Gratitude, Inner Happiness, Money Cant Buy Happiness

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

- Anthony Hopkins

source: "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

topic: Love, Hurt, Pain, Hurt So Much, Love Pain

It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Brilliant Ideas, Spiritual Power, Live Simply, Autobiography Of A Yogi, Happiness Now

Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Soul, Wish, Trying, Happiness Now

The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.

- Robert Holden

topic: Distance, Recovery, Journey, Happiness Now

Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Fun, Communication, Mean, Happiness Now, Dental

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Fate, Want, Danger, Happiness Now

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

- Jonah Goldberg

source: Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.20, Crown Forum

topic: Pursuit Of Happiness, America, Political, Happiness Now

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Pain, Littles, Settling, Total Happiness, Happiness Now

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Love, Life, Truth, Happiness Now