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Quotes about Being Happy

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Happiness is a choice. – Anonymous

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. – Anne Frank

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. –Thich Nhat Hanh

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Zhuangzi

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. – Helen Keller

being happy quotesSuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris

Hope Quotes and Sayings

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Hope is that thing that all of us need in tough times. Let me show you some great hope quotes for a better day.

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~Christopher Reeve

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878

Hope QuotesWhen the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” ~Author Unknown

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all. ~Emily Dickinson

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott

All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley

You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~ Author Unknown

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Stupidity Quotes

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.” – Bill Davidsen

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” –Bertrand Russell

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

stupidity quotes“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” – Frank Leah

“There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one’s own industry or by the stupidity of others.” – Jean de la Bruyere

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” –Thomas Szasz

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Unknown

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” –Bertrand Russell

“Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not” – Frank Zappa

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.” – George Bernard Shaw

Funny Quotes

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I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children’s children, because I don’t think children should be having sex. – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you. – Jack Handey

I’ve developed a new philosophy…only dread one day at a time. – Charlie Brown

I might be in the basement. I’ll go upstairs and check.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
I don’t use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. – M. C. Escher

Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion. – Colonel Flagg

There are no personal problems which cannot be solved through suitable application of high explosives. – Anon

I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. – Katherine Cebrian

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. – Collis P. Huntingdon

I don’t think I’m alone when I say I’d like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system. – Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. – Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. – Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.” – Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

If I ever get rich, I hope I’m not real mean to poor people, like I am now. – Jack Handey

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don’t know what your rights are, or who the person is you’re talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door. – Jack Handey

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: ‘That guy sure owed me a lot of money.’ – Jack Handey

If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. – Anon

Funny Quotes

Life Quotes

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There are a lot of people who wrote things about life. Let me show you what some of them tell us. Some wonderful life quotes just for you. Enjoy!

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. – Agnes Turnbull

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Bible

Life QuotesThe art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner

Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard

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

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. – Tom O’Connor

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – Henry James

Keep breathing. – Sophie Tucker

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. – Rhonda Britten

Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. – Richard L. Evans

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. – Elizabeth Bowen

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hespburn

Beauty Quotes

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“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” – Sara Teasdale

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy

Beauty Quotes“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Adlai E. Stevenson

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they’re actually beautiful.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.” – Don Williams, Jr

“I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.” – Sarah McLachlan

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Kinky Friedman

“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d She is a woman, therefore to be won” – William Shakespeare

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” – Rabindranath Tagore