Happy People

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

Live a happy life, not a perfect life. - Unknown

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George Louis de Buffon

With enough courage you can do without a reputation. - Margaret Mitchell

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul A Valery

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e e cummings

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. - Elias Canetti

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. - Paul Scherer

Happiness is to be dissolved into something complete and great. - Willa Cather

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. - Steven Wright

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. - William Ellery Channing

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S Geneen

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prevert

Crimes of logic can be more catastrophic for humanity than crimes of passion. - Ravi Zacharias

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

The starting point for all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. - Napoleon Hill

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrold

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. - Sonia Sotomayor

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the power of the mind. - Marcel Proust

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. - James Allen

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. - Albert Camus

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretches her fingers to touch the heavens. - Lao Tzu

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham

The greatest human achievement is not success but facing an unchangeable fate with great courage. - Viktor Frankl

I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

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

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown