Happy 2015 🙂
I am sure you had a super start to the new year with new resolutions chalked out for the year. One of my resolutions this year is to be happy and spend time with my kids.
What are your resolutions this year ? Whatever they are I hope being happy is one of them.
Here are 32 Happiness Quotes to begin 2015
– “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb
– If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
– Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
– If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama
– Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert A. Heinlein
– For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
– Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.- Dalai Lama
– Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ― Mahatma Gandhi
– Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle
– Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
– The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. ― Audrey Hepburn
– A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? – Albert Einstein
– Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
– They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ― Tom Bodett
– The grass is always greener where you water it. – Unknown
– Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney
– Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather
– It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ― Dale Carnegie
– Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.- Buddha
– 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. – Mark Twain
– I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. ― Nikos Kazantzakis
– If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. – Morris West
– My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles Schulz
– When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
– “Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
– A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.” ― Jodi Picoult
– Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place or thing. – Wayne Dyer
– ‘What will they think of me?’ must be put aside for bliss.- Joseph Campbell
– The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.― Oprah Winfrey
– Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ― Epictetus
– Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you – Hafiz of Persia
And here’s my favorite one on happiness by Jim Carrey
– I wish everyone could get rich and famous and everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that’s not the answer — Jim Carrey
Have a Happy Sunday and a Super Happy 2015 🙂
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