Thursday, November 29, 2012

30 Ways to stay happy forever

 


  1. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.~ Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
  2. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.~ Earl Nightingale
  3. Someone else is happy with less than what you have ~ Unknown.  
  4. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy ~Anne Frank
  5. To be happy we must not be too concerned with others ~ Albert Camus
  6. Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.~ Dan Millman
  7. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
  8. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. ~ Mark Twain
  9. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
  10. I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.~ Drew Barrymore
  11. 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, Nineteen Minutes
  12. 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
  13. People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
  14. Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.  ~Cynthia Nelms
  15. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.  ~Author Unknown
  16. The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.~Author Unknown 
  17. I have only two kinds of days:  happy and hysterically happy.  ~Allen J. Lefferdink
  18. One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~ Mother Teresa
  19. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  ~ Robert Brault
  20. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.  Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~ Denis Waitley
  21. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ~ Michael J. Fox
  22. Some pursue happiness, others create it.~Author Unknown
  23. I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner. ~ David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance 
  24. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony,educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.  He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.  He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.  ~W. Beran Wolfe
  25. Being happy doesn't mean you're perfect. It just means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections 
  26. People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway .If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. ~ Mother Teresa
  27. Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect and the absence of ego.Love yourself.Love everyone around you.Love everyone in the whole world. Know that your own life is of infinite importance, as is every other life. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  28. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust
  29. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~ Oprah Winfrey
  30. Be happy, and a reason will come along. ~Robert Brault