Dont Worry, Be Happy!

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert


If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy


Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal


Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony


The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain


If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton


Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg


Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms


Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies


Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick


Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky


What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim


Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore


"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne


People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne


It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)


Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young


Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine


Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931


This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown


Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806


Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln


Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson


We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere


Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee


We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig


Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets


Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven


It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed


Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston


Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer


Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt


Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris


Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane


A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama


Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown


There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington


The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown


A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle


Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin


A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad


Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant


Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi


He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher


If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud


There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali


The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett


We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor


The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw


Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson


The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell


The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson


Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles


What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins


My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare


Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873


We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux


As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco


Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown


Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown


So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington


Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown


Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."


Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer


Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny


The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
~Colley Cibber


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 L. Morgan


Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch


Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz


When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli


You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown


The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet


One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb


We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898


One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill


A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca


One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa


Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert


My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder


Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette


Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra


The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov


Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold


Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold


If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru


It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel


If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger


There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
~Emily Dickinson


Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard


Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky


Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison


Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson


There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron


On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge


To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi


When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston


Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis


If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard


Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Lost Love

1. Washington Irving

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

2. Otomo No Yakamochi

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

3. Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

4. Jean Anouilh

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

5. Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

6. Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

7. Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

8. G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

9. Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

10. Socrates

The hottest love has the coldest end.

11. Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.

12. One day you'll love me, the way I loved you. One day you'll think of me the way I thought of you. One day you'll cry for me, the way I cried for you. One day you'll want me, but I won't want you.

13. Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

14. Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

15. The worst thing is holding on to someone who doesn't want to be held on to.

16. I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had.

17. Why am I afraid to lose you when you're not even mine...

18. You're the reason behind my smile, you're the reason for my laughter, and also for the reason for my happiness...because you've showed me what love is but I never thought you're also the reason for my tears and for experiencing the greatest pain that could ever happen me...

19. A million words wouldn't bring you back. I know because I've tried. Neither would a million tears. I know because I've cried.

20. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

21. There are reasons we met, reasons for the good and the bad times, and more importantly, a reason to an end. We have more to learn, more to experience, and more loving left in this lifetime.

22. Why is it that I finally convince my mind that I am over you, then I see you and my heart takes over and screws everything up? Why do you have that power over me if we cannot be together?

23. Why do we wait until it is too late? Why do we let someone else have what we were too scared to reach out and take?

24. Even if my heart should call out your name in the rain, even if these arms should want to embrace you again, and even if I’m all cried out and no longer in pain... I’ll never fall in love that way again.

25. I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.

Be Blessed

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
George Mason

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Dean Inge

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Mason Cooley

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
Joseph Lancaster

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
John Calvin

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.
Thomas F. Meagher

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
Sonny Perdue

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
John Pearson

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
Mary Baker Eddy

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
Ellsworth Huntington

Quit Worrying

"The problem of life is to change worry into
thinking and anxiety into creative action."
Harold B. Walker, from Think or Worry?

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due."
William R. Inge

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday." Author Unknown

"It is not work that kills, but worry."
African Proverb

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years.
If something is wrong, fix it if you can.
But train yourself not to worry:
Worry never fixes anything."
Ernest Hemingway

"What were you worried about this time last year?
Can't remember?"
Author Unknown, from Ten Ways to Worry Less and Accomplish More

"Don't worry, be happy."
Bobby McFerrin

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight."
Benjamin Franklin

"I’ve seen many troubles in my time,
only half of which ever came true."
Mark Twain

"If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Charles F. Kettering