I'm looking for short quotes about being happy in life...
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"There is only one happiness: to love and be loved"
"Barn's burned down. Now I can see the moon."
Albert Camus:
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 Schweitzer:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Edith Wharton:
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Last one I have - George Burns:
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
This thread makes me smile. :)
this isn't as short, but check out one of my favorite shakespeare sonnets (on happiness) http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/whenindisgrace.html
In general, I turn to Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet" for quotes about pretty much anything--on Joy and Sorrow: "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
That one may be a little more about sadness, but it's a different take
love that. There's also the line from that where he says "your joy is your sorrow unmasked."
here is my fav, Benjamin Franklin, " Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy."
Soren Kierkegaard: "All success lies in a good breakfast."
Donald Trump: "Happiness is dying just after you spent all that money you borrowed, but before you have to start making payments."
I always like:
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Which Jack London may or may not have said.
check out gandhi: all men are brothers. it is a book of his quotations compiled as biography. brilliant.
an old man on a hill once said, "i like my hill. i am happy."
I thought it was Ingrid Bergman who said "Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
I know this is an old question, but I just found it and wanted to add my favorite. Don’t know the source, though.
“Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming… WOW! What a ride!”
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