Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find great value in these quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Happiness
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Thank you for visiting: Wise Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.