Hold On To Your Happiness Quotes

#1. True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him ... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

Nikki Rowe

#3. Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

Shane Eric Mathias

#4. When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Roger Housden

#5. I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#6. Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#7. Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#8. Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.

Ernie J Zelinski

#9. Would there be water shortages? Yes. More starving babies? Unfortunately. Would our quality of life soon be diminished by global warming? Probably. But who, I wondered, but the strongest among us could hold those ideas in their heads and find happiness? Get out of bed in the morning?

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#10. Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read.

Faye Hall

#11. Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms
and to hold on to it
that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur

Marc Levy

#12. Life is messy though, you know? Sometimes it's worth it to jump in and get your hands dirty. Happiness and contentment don't come along very often, so when they do, you need to hold on with everything you've got. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but at least you can say you tried.

Cate Ashwood

#13. Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Orhan Pamuk

#14. We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

M.J. Ryan

#15. A thought enters your brain and lasts an average of five seconds. The only way to keep it is to grab hold of it and claim it. The same applies to dreams. We forget most of our dreams because we never take the actions needed to make them our own.

Toni Sorenson

#16. You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.

S.N. Lemoing

#17. At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

Sandy Gingras

#18. Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

Guy De Maupassant

#19. The thing is, when you're dependent on others, they hold a part of your happiness in their hands. They can nurture it or crush it at any moment. Your fate doesn't belong to you.

Emma Chase

#20. It's hard to hold on to anger. It eats at you, chips away at your happiness, making you miserable.

Monica Murphy

#21. There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affected by the latter! Hold on to the former - the chosen ones in your life and move on.

Avijeet Das

#22. Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it - I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?

Sarah Ruhl

#23. If you are curious as to what your future may hold, you can look into a mirror. What is reflecting back? Does a sparkle in your eyes indicate excitement about new adventures and opportunities? Does a smile on your lips portray an inner happiness and abundant goodwill towards others?

John Templeton

#24. The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.

Katherine Center

#25. Something about this small glimmer of happiness feels wrong, but I can't think about that. I just hold onto the glimmer, the shred. I let myself feel a tiny bit happy. Even though it kind of hurts.

Amanda Maciel

#26. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#27. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#28. This moment will never ever come back, so create a memory and hold it tight.

Debasish Mridha

#29. There's too much pain and uncertainty in the world. You should seize happiness whenever it comes, and hold onto it for as long as you can.

Anna White

#30. Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.

Jeaniene Frost

#31. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Jennifer O'Neill

#32. Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.

Henry James

#33. Within you is everything you need; hold on to that and let go of everything else.

Darryl Diptee

#34. Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

Tom Giaquinto

#35. Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard

Isabel Allende

#36. I had never in all my life felt so elated. Peter cared for me! It was a miracle I longed to celebrate - to tell all Hertfordshire - and I had to hold my hand to my mouth against an involuntary smile.

Jennifer Paynter

#37. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

Deepak Chopra

#38. What was there about the human condition that made us hold on to tragedy with such tenacity and easily forgo the happiness we could reach readily?

V.C. Andrews

#39. Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial. So, stop looking for it in the material world! Happiness is experienced within; when we bridge the gap between what we want to experience and how we choose to behave.

Steve Maraboli

#40. Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts.

Penny Reid

#41. You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.

Jennifer Weiner

#42. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

Ayn Rand

#43. The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Charlotte Bronte

#44. It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#45. Sometimes all you need to do is just hold on to yourself! Look at the stars in the sky, listen to the sweet murmurings of the breeze, inhale the fragrance of the night, and you will feel fine!

Avijeet Das

#46. Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

Timothy Egan

#47. Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Leibniz

#48. I am the owner of my life, so hold your tongue and let me live.

Debasish Mridha