Past Happiness Quotes:

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

- Dante Alighieri

source: Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.311, Indiana University Press

topic: Pain, Grief, Past, Past Happiness

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

The past has no power over the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical, Stress And Anxiety, Past Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Make Someone Happy, Joy Happiness

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

- Jean Plaidy

topic: Life, Happiness, Break Up, Regret Nothing, Good Experiences

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Soul Life, Dwell On The Past

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Happiness, Past, Past Happiness, Wretchedness

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Happiness, Business, Past, Meditation Mind, Just Be Happy

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

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You, Being Blessed, Inspirational Gratitude

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Being Happy, Health, Healing, Healthy Living, Sorrow And Happiness

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: Past, Remembrance, Feelings, Past Happiness

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Always Happy, Key To Happiness

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Happiness, Mom, Beacons, Just A Mom

I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters. When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

- M. J. Hyland

topic: Beach, Memories, Swimming, Swimming Pool, Past Happiness

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

- Jennifer Crusie

topic: Past, Optimism, Contentment, Hope For The Future, Past Happiness