Quotes About You Make Your Own Happiness

#1. The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

Harold Klemp

#2. But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Emily Giffin

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

Marcel Proust

#4. As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

Victoria Osteen

#5. Peace is present in every breath we take.
Peace is present in every loving gesture we make.

Debasish Mridha

#6. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness - by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15

Jane McGonigal

#7. Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.

Ryan Holiday

#8. Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. If you're going through a dark time ... don't ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.

Lady Gaga

#12. You make me believe in happiness ... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I'd never be without you. You are my purpose.

Courtney Kirchoff

#13. Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.

Mark Frost

#14. Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

Hosea Ballou

#15. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible.

Augustine Of Hippo

#16. When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.

Yukio Mishima

#17. The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

#18. My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else.

Nick Vujicic

#19. The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.

Frederick Lenz

#20. It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

Maeve Binchy

#22. Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy.

Rhonda Byrne

#23. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.

J.C. Reed

#24. Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket!

Sanchita Pandey

#25. 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

#26. What you do for your own happiness should ultimately make everyone happy.

Lalithambika Antharjanam

#27. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. Want to make today a great day? Learn something new, reconnect with a light from your past, right a wrong, serve someone incapable of repaying you, smile at your own image and thank God for who you are and all that you have.

Toni Sorenson

#29. There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

Ken Liu

#30. Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than your own happiness. You don't realise that, while you are building it. That you are creating a martyrdom - something which, later, will make you suffer.

Sofia Samatar

#31. Sometimes it is good to lose in a game to make the rival happy; when you see the happiness on the face of your rival, you become the winner of your own game!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. you create your own happiness by the choices you make. If you rely completely on others, you'll never have it, at least not in the true sense of happiness.

Florence Osmund

#34. The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.

Larry Winget

#35. Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy.

Saji Ijiyemi

#36. Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt

Colleen Houck

#37. Life is a canvas, so make your life as an ageless art. Everybody will be able to look at it and enjoy it. And, with time, it will get more valuable.

Debasish Mridha

#38. I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

Maeve Binchy

#39. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

Lucas Scott

#40. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#41. Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.

Mohsin Hamid

#42. Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

Jason Fried

#43. We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#44. Never deviate from the path unless you are going to make love in the bushes ...

Truth Devour

#45. The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.

Joe Rogan

#46. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

#47. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

#48. I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

Sam Harris

#49. A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

John Waters

#50. Find joy and gratitude in today,
make every day in life a holiday.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

Elyne Mitchell

#52. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anthony De Mello

#53. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

#54. Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.

M. Leighton

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough?

V.C. Andrews

#58. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

Sharon Salzberg

#59. So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God's glory in it.

Jennie Allen

#60. Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

Frederic Ozanam

#61. If earthly fathers, who are sinful, ordinarily want to make their children happy, "how much more" committed is our perfect heavenly Father to our well-being and happiness?

Timothy J. Keller

#62. He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

#63. When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you.

Giridhar Alwar

#64. So much happiness can only make me sad.

David Levithan

#65. There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

Lucian

#66. To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.

Lizzie Velasquez

#67. True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.

Matthew Donnelly

#68. Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness - the hilarity beyond all liking and happening - that has been pounding on our door all along.

Robert Farrar Capon

#69. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

#70. You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

Taylor Swift

#71. I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#72. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.

Seneca.