OPTIMISM AND HAPPINESS QUOTES



OPTIMISM & HAPPINESS

  1. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of your life." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. "To be able to find joy in another's joy; that is the secret to happiness." -- Georges Bernanos
  3. "A day above ground is a good day." -- Anonymous
  4. "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  5. "Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half-sorrow." -- Swedish proverb
  6. "Be happy. It's just one way of being wise." -- Colette
  7. "Light tomorrow with today." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  8. "Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most uncompromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes." -- Frederick Buechner
  9. "Don't postpone joy." -- author unknown
  10. "Your face is your billboard to your philosophy of life." -- author unknown
  11. "There are only two ways to live your life -- one is as if everything is a miracle, the other is as though nothing is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein
  12. "Anything worth doing is worth doing with enthusiasm." -- unknown author, a favorite quote of my high school public speaking teacher Ms. Hays
  13. "The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see." -- Barry Neil Kaufman
  14. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." -- Dolly Parton
  15. "I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy." -- Nobel Prize-winning Indian poet Rabinrath Tagore
  16. "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  17. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long shot." -- Charlie Chaplin
  18. "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." -- Michael Pritchard
  19. "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." --Joseph Addison
  20. "I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet." -- author unknown
  21. "Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint." -- Emerson
  22. "It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves." -- Katherine Mansfield
  23. "The richest person is the one who is contented with what he has." -- Robert C. Savage
  24. "Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness." -- The Buddha
  25. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind." -- William James
  26. "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitudes towards them." -- Antoine de St. Exupery
  27. "The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty 'yes' to your adventure." -- Joseph Campbell
  28. "If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh, you might as well laugh about it now." -- Marie Osmond
  29. "In times of change, there is no incentive so great, and no medicine so powerful as hope for a better tomorrow." -- Anonymous
  30. "It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles, that you find serenity." -- Antoine de St. Exupery
  31. "'When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,' said Piglet at last, 'what's the first thing you say to yourself?' 'What's for breakfast?' said Pooh. 'What do you say, Piglet?' 'I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?' said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. 'It's the same thing,' he said." ~from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, quoted in The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff
  32. If you see the glass not as half full or half empty, but as already broken, if your glass ever breaks, just say, "Ah, there it goes." and calm down. �- from Don�t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
  33. "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  34. �The world is conspiring in your favor.� -� Anonymous
  35. �If fate turns a knife at you, there are 2 ways of catching it � by the blade and by the handle.� -� Chinese proverb
  36. "Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves." -- anonymous
  37. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. --John Ruskin
  38. �Measure your life in love.� � quote from the song Seasons of Love in the musical Rent




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