Be Happy

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness, and just be happy.â€? – Guillaume Apollinaire   

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.â€? – Samuel Butler

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.â€? – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Without music life would be a mistake.â€? – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“He who is contented is rich.â€? – Lao Tzu

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.â€? – Dalai Lama

“While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.â€? – H.G. Wells

“Life is too short for bad attitudes.â€? – Jorge Marco Contreras Death Row Inmate, San Quentin State Prison

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.â€? – Diane Ackerman

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.â€? – Robert Graves

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.â€? – Joseph Addison

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.â€? – e.e. cummings

“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.â€? – George Burns

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common–this is my symphony.â€? – William Henry Channing

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.â€? – Agatha Christie

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.â€? – Thomas Wolfe

“Happiness is like a cat, if you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.â€? – William J. Bennett

“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.â€? – Anthony Robbins

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.â€? – Sir James Barrie

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.â€? – e.e. cummings

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” – Henry Ward Beecher

 

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” – Confucius 

 

“The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.” – Eric Hoffer 

 

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.” – Thomas Szasz 

 

“Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.” – Helen Hayes 

 

“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.” – Walter Lippmann 

 

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” – Herm Albright 

 

“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.” – Richard Linklater

 

All I ask from life is that I be slightly less miserable than the people who hate me. I call that winning. – Scott Adams

 

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” – Clive James 

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” – Bertrand Russell