This is definitely the way to achieve happiness. What you cannot have, losing something or someone or having missed opportunities; accept it and get over it.
Don't keep harping on it, you will always feel miserable. Let it go and move on. Forgive and forget and you feel relieved yourself from all the miseries.
Another one of my favorite happiness quote is by Frances Rodma: "Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.”
The problem is we take things for granted. So is happiness. It is happiness quote like this which reminds us to take time to enjoy what we have.
Let's read through these happiness quotes to start your day below. Ponder over them. With just one of these quotations is suffice to open your mind and heart.
"I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad." - William Shakespeare
"Those who wish to sing, always find a song." - Swedish proverb
"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
"To enjoy the true taste of happiness, you need to share it with others." - Best Life Quotes
"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men." - W. R. Alger
"A laugh is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." - Bernard Meltzer.
"Look beyond life's imperfections. You'll be perfectly happier." - Best Life Quotes
"If you can live without things you can't have, then you can live in happiness." - Best Life Quotes
"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 month get married. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime help someone else." - Chinese proverb
"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come." - Chinese Proverb
"Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything." - Unknown
“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” - Oscar Wilde
“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
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” - Hugh Downs
"Want to be happy? Make someone happy." - Best Life Quotes
“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.” - Dale Carnegie
"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money." - David Geffen
"It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs." - Charles Baudelaire (Crowds)
"We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity." - Samuel Richardson (Pamela)
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” - Dalai Lama XIV
"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. - Aesop (Fables)
"Like all happiness, it did not last long." - Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory." - Julian Barne (Flaubert's Parrot)
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.” - Audrey Hepburn
"Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory." - Hans Christian Anderson (The True Story of My Life)
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." - Robert Anthony (The Graduate's Book of Practical Wisdom)
"We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld (Moral Maxims)
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” - Gabriel García Márquez
“All happiness depends on courage and work.” - Honoré de Balzac
"Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable." - John Lennon (The Beatles Anthology)
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." - Oscar Levant (TIME Magazine, August 28, 1972)
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them." - H. P. Lovecraft (Letter to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916)
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances. - John Lubbock (Character and Conduct: A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages)
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it." - Robert Wilson Lynd
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” - Albert Camus
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