Top 100 Quotes About Living And Happiness
#1. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#2. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#3. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#4. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
Leo Babauta
#5. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
#6. Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
Auliq Ice
#7. I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman Vincent Peale
#8. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#9. When you know your role in life, living makes sense because of clarity, and the loads become enjoyable to carry.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#10. I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.
James Watson
#11. What is one common thing every one craves for? It is love... Love others unconditionally, honestly and truthfully. When you fill your being with love, you make yourself healthier and happier.
Sanchita Pandey
#12. It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#13. Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side
Maki Enjoji
#14. Learn new things and grow every day. Growing is living; live every moment; live all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions
Duncan William Gibbons
#16. I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
Rivers Cuomo
#17. A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
Michael Josephson
#18. It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#19. There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.
Deepak Chopra
#20. By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#21. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
Amit Ray
#22. Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.
John Bruna
#23. Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
#24. We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.
Vincent De Paul
#26. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#27. I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
August Strindberg
#28. In life we meet people and they come and go. But, only God will remain the same. Despite what others think, God's love is eternal. No matter who abandons you, God will never leave or forsake you.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#29. It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.
Sonia Rumzi
#30. I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#31. It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.
Oli Anderson
#32. Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.
Auliq Ice
#33. The only reason I am living is to express my love for you and for the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#34. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#35. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#36. Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music
Amit Ray
#37. A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy
An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
#38. The Master said, "What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water - other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui's joy. What a worthy man was Hui!"
(Analects 6.11)
Confucius
#39. Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.
Wayne Dyer
#40. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.
Jose Mujica
#41. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#42. Everyone needs peace of mind, inner-happiness and joyful relationships but most people don't prioritize these. Do you set goals or invest in learning to achieve these?
If you focus only on career, social and financial goals then you will never be fulfilled or fully successful!
Maddy Malhotra
#43. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.
Steve Goodier
#44. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.
Mark Twain
#45. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
#46. There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.
Robert Muller
#47. Look back on your life and find those moments of giving. Fill life with those moments; life will be worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
Stephen King
#49. Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret
a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.
Richie Norton
#50. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#51. Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.
Kristi Ling
#52. In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.
Alice B. Emerson
#53. By letting go of the past with love and gratitude, I am creating beautiful memories, which are living in me, but I am living at present not in memories.
Debasish Mridha
#54. No one tells you how precious and powerful moments of happiness and connection are when you are living through a nightmare.
Philip Gould
#55. What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Aristotle.
#56. Life is a waste without humor
living is all about happiness and laughter.
Fauja Singh
#57. Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#58. People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.
Gunnar Myrdal
#59. In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.
Ellis Peters
#60. The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
#61. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#62. The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.
Elaina Marie
#63. The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
Walter Rauschenbusch
#64. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
Kien Nguyen
#65. Don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.
Karen Salmansohn
#66. When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.
Marina Tavares Dias
#67. I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.
Robert Henri
#68. Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"
W. Eugene Hansen
#69. When we are truly aware of great abundance in our life, feel grateful and express gratitude for those treasures and beauty, then we are fully living.
Debasish Mridha
#70. All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.
Parul Wadhwa
#71. Suddenly I'm happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is - not a dream or a promise - just living for the moment.
Delphine De Vigan
#72. We are living for the happiness, going toward the happiness, and like to vanish in the happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#73. We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#74. Be brave. Charlotte had said the same back to Molly, and now her best friend was living a Technicolor life full of adventure, love, and passionate happiness. It was a future neither one of them could've predicted. Being brave had its rewards.
Nalini Singh
#75. I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.
Kris Jenner
#76. The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day ...
C. JoyBell C.
#77. 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
#78. Keep the commandments of God. If you have sinned, the sooner you begin to make your way back, the sooner you will find the sweet peace and joy that come with the miracle of forgiveness. Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live and from service to God and others.
Thomas S. Monson
#79. There are two types of people on earth: givers and takers. Life is not about taking and having but about giving and living.
GE Paulus
#80. Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into a nightmare of suffering with brief moments of happiness
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#81. 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
#82. Life is always moving and going, but are you really living?
Debasish Mridha
#83. I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
Paul Auster
#84. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
Martha Beck
#85. You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura.
Jennifer Pierre
#86. There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.
Patricia McLinn
#87. When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place ... but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!
Naoyuki Ochiai
#89. There is nothing wrong with falling in love. Don't trip and bump your head only to realize you're experiencing infatuation.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#90. We discover the vast difference between living and feeling alive when we discover inspiration." The quickest way to true happiness is not by ambling and obsessing about the limited pursuit of happiness, but by the immediate and actionable pursuit to be inspired.
Elaina Marie
#91. The essence of life is not in living, but in pondering and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
Satish Kumar
#93. In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.
Mantak Chia
#94. I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.
Heather Anastasiu
#95. Our usefulness and happiness depend upon us living near to God, for you well know that God alone can make us useful and happy. If we wish to grow in grace, we must read the Bible much and pray much; and not only read and pray, but act. - Samuel Pond (Sr.)
Samuel William Pond
#97. Let nothing put me to unease,
nothing to deceive.
I have conceived,
I exist.
Because I am blessed,
To gather time,
in hearing,
my breath,
so tranquil.
To life,
I am, thankful.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#98. Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.
E.L. Doctorow
#99. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
Ray Bradbury
#100. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan
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