Quotes - Happiness, Outlook and Direction

• Happiness is a journey....not a destination.
• Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it.
• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through a door we don't remember leaving open.
• Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
• There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. –Albert Einstein
• Nothing is ever as simple as we hope it will be.
• Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there.
• Laughter is an instant vacation.
• We may run, walk, stumble, drive or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey.
• There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
• Every happy time that passes is never really gone, if it leaves a lovely memory for looking back upon.
• There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wondered what happened.
• Be yourself. The world will appreciate the originality.
• Live in such a way that there will be no regrets when someone else follows in your footsteps.
• People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.
• It is never too late to be what you might have been.
• Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with one.
• If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
• Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
• It's kind of fun to do the impossible. –Walt Disney
• Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.
• Happiness is like jam-you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
• Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we have to do.
• 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.
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length
• Remember that happiness is a way of travel-not a destination
• Happiness can be thought, taught, and caught…but NOT bought.
• Yard by yard it’s hard, inch by inch it’s a cinch
• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
• You must do the thing you think you cannot.
• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Life your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
• Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you, and low enough to encourage you.
• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• To be upset over what you don't have, is to waste what you do have.
• The true object of all human life is to play.
• Take time to laugh, its the music of the soul.
• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter
• Between any desire and fulfillment of that desire lies a vast middle ground of focused and consistent effort. Much of it tedious, some of it painful, all of it necessary.
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, BEGIN it...boldness has magic, power and genius in it!
• Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. –Martin Luther King Jr.
• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
• Be the change you want to see in the world.
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast us.
• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
• He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
• It is necessary to hope, for hope itself is happiness.
• A light heart lives long
• You may satisfy all your senses and still not be satisfied
• Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
• Our happiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
• I know what happiness is, for I have done good work
• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves
• Men are that they might have joy
• Joy is not in things, it is in us
• Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling
• People only see what they are prepared to see
• They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it
• To understand and to be understood makes our happiness on earth
• Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he his. Treat a man as he could be and he will become what he should be.
• This too, shall pass
• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year
• Keep your face in the sunshine and all shadows fall behind
• Man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
• The saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words: “It might have been.”
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued
• Four things come not back-The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity
• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one
• A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials
• Make the most of the best and the least of the worst
• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
• Thou shalt not whine!
• Don’t let life discourage you: Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was
• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
• It is the man who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
• Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
• Every day of your life is a page of your history.
• Big shots are little shots who just keep on shooting.
• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration
• Give without remembering, take without forgetting.