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Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Life

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Love

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis

Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.
Unknown

Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar Lumapas

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Kindness

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest wisdom is kindness.
Author Unknown

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Hope

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

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

Hope is a powerful force. It can make the impossible possible.
Unknown

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Unknown

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
Michelle Horst

Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded away.
Unknown

Hope is the light that shines in the darkness, revealing the possibilities that lie ahead.
Unknown

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Mindfulness

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Resilience

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.
Steve Maraboli

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Positivity

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Inspiration

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The only true way to happiness is to live in the present moment and let go of the past and future.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Success

Success 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

Success is not the destination, it's the journey.
Zig Ziglar

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Tony Robbins

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Friendship

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Self-Care

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
Deborah Day

Self-care is how you take your power back.
Lalah Delia

Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what's left of you.
Katie Reed

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health - body, mind, and spirit.
Laurie Buchanan

Self-care is not a luxury. It's a necessity.
Unknown

Self-care is not about self-indulgence, it's about self-preservation.
Audre Lorde

Self-care is how we give ourselves permission to pause.
Candice Kumai

Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.
Unknown

Self-care is the foundation of a happy and healthy life.
Unknown

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Motivation

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Joy

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness And Positivity Quotes About Optimism

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy

Optimism is a choice. Not a requirement.
Unknown

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